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Book SynopsisWhile I waited for sleep I retraced the road which brought me to you. Unbelievably it only took six months, equinox to equinox.
This dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, is a heady, witty and seductive exploration of female sexuality - perfect for fans of Iris Murdoch and Brigid Brophy. ***''Funny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel'' CHARLOTTE MENDELSON''A transgressive classic . . . intrepid, eccentric, and not giving a damn'' OBSERVER
''Elizabeth Mavor relishes spirited, unorthodox women, free with their tongues and ready to snap their fingers at convention'' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. First her quiet but forbidden liaison with
Trade ReviewFunny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel -- Charlotte Mendelson
A Green Equinox is a book of astounding precocity in content, imagery, character and style . . . a masterly study of pretension, hypocrisy, and the immeasurable folly of refinement * Times Literary Supplement *
Elizabeth Mavor relishes spirited, unorthodox women, free with their tongues and ready to snap their fingers at convention * London Review of Books *
Funny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel
