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The beginning of spring

Fitzgerald, PenelopeMiller(Introduction by)
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New cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel shortlisted for the 1988 booker prize Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow.

His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it.

In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation.

How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain's wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper?

How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don't?

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Fourth Estate Ltd
0006543707 / 9780006543701
Paperback / softback
823.914
26/07/1989
United Kingdom
English
General
187 pages
20 cm
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Quiz No: 203771, Points 9.00, Book Level 6.80,
Upper Years - Key Stage 3 Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Collins, 1988.