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A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children.

Trade Review
"Assured and engaging." -- James Marcus - New York Times Book Review
"A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life." -- Publishers Weekly
"A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands." -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books
"As exceptional in quality as it is in content…an outstanding first novel." -- Observer

When the World Was Steady

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    A Paperback / softback by Claire Messud

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      Publisher: WW Norton & Co
      Publication Date: 29/08/2017
      ISBN13: 9780393355093, 978-0393355093
      ISBN10: 0393355098

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A PEN/Faulkner Award finalist about two sisters’ divergent paths, from the author of The Burning Girl and The Emperor’s Children.

      Trade Review
      "Assured and engaging." -- James Marcus - New York Times Book Review
      "A beautiful, bittersweet story about the painful cost of self-knowledge and the unpredictability of life." -- Publishers Weekly
      "A tenderly ironic double portrait of two hapless middle-aged English sisters who travel to very different islands." -- Joyce Carol Oates - New York Review of Books
      "As exceptional in quality as it is in content…an outstanding first novel." -- Observer

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