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Marigold Green calls herself ''hideous, quaint and barmy''. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill''s daughter. Growing up in a boys'' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence

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She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
Lively....excellent * The TIMES *
One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love * EVENING STANDARD *
A striking story * TLS *

Bilgewater

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      Publisher Abacus
      Published 1 January 1985
      ISBN-13 9780349114026
      978-0349114026
      ISBN-10 0349114021
      Also in:
      Contemporary Fiction Satire & Humour

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Marigold Green calls herself ''hideous, quaint and barmy''. Other people calle her Bilgewater, a corruption of Bill''s daughter. Growing up in a boys'' school where her father is housemaster, she is convinced of her own plainness and peculiarity. Groomed by the wise and loving Paula, upstaged by bad, beautiful Grace and ripe for seduction by entirely the wrong sort of boy, she suffers extravagantly and comically in her pilgrimage through the turbulent, twilight world of alarming adolescence

      Trade Review
      She does fiction as it should be done, with confidence and insight -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie * Observer *
      Lively....excellent * The TIMES *
      One of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love * EVENING STANDARD *
      A striking story * TLS *

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