Penelope FITZGERALD

PENELOPE FITZGERALD’s instinctive grasp of the shadows and darkness lurking within the human psyche render her novels engrossing reads that balance intellectual rigour with strong, realistic dialogue and sly wit. She is such an entertaining writer that it is so easy to overlook how intriguing and intelligent her plots are. The Blue Flower (1995), The Beginning of Spring (1988) and The Bookshop (1978) are indeed masterly pieces of literary sleight of hand.

Bibliography
FITZGERALD Penelope [1916-2000] Novelist, biographer. Born Penelope Mary Knox in Lincoln, England. Novels The Blue Flower (1995: winner of the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the 1997 Irish Times International Fiction Prize); The Gate of Angels (1990: shortlisted for the 1990 Booker Prize for Fiction); The Beginning of Spring (1988: shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize for Fiction); Innocence (1986); At Freddie’s (1982); Human Voices (1980); Offshore (1979: winner of the 1979 Booker Prize for Fiction); The Bookshop (1978: shortlisted for the 1978 Booker Prize for Fiction); The Golden Child (1977) Stories The Means of Escape (2000) Nonfiction Charlotte Mew and Her Friends (1984); The Knox Brothers (1977); Edward Burne-Jones (1975) Essays A House of Air (first published as The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism in the U.S. in 2003) (ed. Terence Dooley with Christopher Carduff and Mandy Kirkby) (2005)

Recommended
Novels The Blue Flower (1995); The Beginning of Spring (1988); The Bookshop (1978)
Essays A House of Air (first published as The Afterlife: Essays and Criticism in the U.S. in 2003) (ed. Terence Dooley with Christopher Carduff and Mandy Kirkby) (2005)