Bilgewater / Jane Gardam.
"originally published in 1977, Jane Gardam's Bilgewater is an affectionate and complex rendering-in-miniature of the discomforts of growing up and first love seen through the eyes of inimitable Marigold Green, an awkward, eccentric, highly intelligent girl. The Evening Standard described Bilgewater as "one of the funniest, most entertaining, most unusual stories about young love." Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private backwater all-boys school. To make matters worse, Marigold pines for head boy Jack Rose, reckons with the beautiful and domineering Grace, and yanks herself headlong out of her interior world and into the seething cauldron of adolescence. With everything happening all at once, Marigold faces the greatest of teenage crucibles."
Record details
- ISBN: 9781609453312
- Physical Description: 227 pages ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York Europa Editions, 2016.
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Jane Gardam is the only writer to have been twice awarded the Whitbread Prize for Best Novel of the Year. She is winner of the David Higham Prize and the Royal Society for Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize, the Katherine Mansfield Prize, and the Silver Pen Award from PEN. Her novels include Old Filth (Europa, 2006), The Queen of the Tambourine, (Europa, 2007), and A Long Way from Verona (Europa, 2013). A volume of her selected short stories, The Stories of Jane Gardam, was published in 2014 by Europa Editions. She lives in the south of England near the sea.