Providence
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:2nd Jun '16
Should be back in stock very soon

'Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful'.
Kitty Maule wants to be 'totally unreasonable, totally unfair, very demanding, and very beautiful.'
Instead, she is clever, hesitant and too patient for her own good. For years, she has been in love with her colleague Maurice Bishop, a charming English lecturer who seems not to notice her feelings. But when there comes a chance to accompany Maurice to France on a study of French cathedrals, Kitty sees an opporunity to be the woman she has always wanted to be as well as at last make the man she wants fall in love with her. But why is that the closer she gets to Maurice, the more elusive he seems to become?
How can anything be so funny and so sad both at once? Every sentence is an object lesson in compression and wit. -- Tessa Hadley on 'A Start in Life' * Guardian Summer Reads, 2015 *
All is sheer delight. * Daily Telegraph *
Thoroughly enjoyable. * Guardian *
Beautiful. * Spectator *
ISBN: 9780241977767
Dimensions: 197mm x 129mm x 13mm
Weight: 139g
192 pages