by Jane Gardam · Tapa dura · ISBN 9783446267831
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«Robinsons Tochter» is the novel by Jane Gardam, published by Hanser Berlin in 2020 as a hardback in German.
The protagonist, brought up in a house by the sea, takes refuge in Robinson Crusoe and in reading; the narrative moves through twentieth-century England by way of school, friendship, war and the passage of time.
Translation from English by Isabel Bogdan.
For readers of coming-of-age novels and twentieth-century English fiction.
Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
