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By Battersea Bridge

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099566021

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 219g

  • RRP: £8.99

By Battersea Bridge

Anita Mostyn feels the need to take a holiday from her life. As a child, she was dismissed by her parents in favour of her more confident brothers, and as an adult, her choices are disapproved of – the small art gallery she works for, the friends she makes, the men she sees. On a whim, she takes up an offer to scout for holiday properties in Bulgaria, escaping the impending second wedding of her perfect brother. But as Anita navigates these difficult waters, a horrifying episode in her past – the thing she has really been trying to escape – comes back to haunt her.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099566021

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 219g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A triumph

    Susie Boyt, Independent

  • So deliciously written that it's worth re-reading to savour the images she conjures up...it's a joy to read

    Clare Colvin, Daily Mail

  • We're lucky to have such an intelligent chronicler of our present - and of the dirty, noisy beauty of contemporary London

    Tessa Hadley, Guardian

  • Easy to read and oddly compelling...a memorable, and very clever, book

    Lucy Atkins, Sunday Times

  • Funny and real as well as impressively sympathetic...this perceptive, engaging little novel says a great deal about human vulnerability, resilience and the passivity that too often goes unnoticed.

    Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

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About the Author

Janet Davey

Janet Davey was born in 1953. She is the author of English Correspondence, which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, First Aid, The Taxi Queue and By Battersea Bridge.

Janet Davey

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