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The gate of angels

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Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize In 1912 Fred Fairly is a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus in Cambridge, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot ("though the starlings couldn't altogether be regulated").

Fred lectures in physics and the questionable nature of matter and worries about the universal problem known in Cambridge at the time as 'the absurdity of the Mind-Body Relationship'.

To Fred this is tormenting rather than absurd. The young woman beside him when he wakes up one evening in the Wrayburns' spare bedroom might help resolve it, but how can he tell if she is quite what she seems?

Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything, and indeed he thinks it is.

But scientists make mistakes. The Gate of Angels is a funny, touching and inspiring look at male-female relationships and the problems caused by thinking just a little too much.

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Fourth Estate Ltd
000654360X / 9780006543602
Paperback / softback
823.914
26/09/1991
United Kingdom
English
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176 pages
20 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Collins, 1990.
Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize Part of extensive re-packaging of all Fitzgerald's backlist. Competition: A.S. Byatt, Rose Tremain
Beautiful reissue of this wonderful Fitzgerald backlist title, shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize Part of extensive re-packaging of all Fitzgerald's backlist. Competition: A.S. Byatt, Rose Tremain YFB General fiction (Children's / Teenage), YQEF School editions of English literature fiction texts