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A Whistling Woman
A Literary Fiction Novel by A. S. Byatt
Book 3 of the Frederica Potter Series
Subgenres:
- 1960s,
- Campus Novel,
- Women's Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Literary fiction set in the intellectual ferment of 1960s Britain
- Smart, complex women navigating shifting cultural and academic landscapes
- University politics colliding with radical movements and experimental communities
The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives.
Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in academic research, the university is planning a prestigious conference on body and mind, and a group of students and agitators is establishing an "anti-university." Nearby, a therapeutic community is beginning to take the shape of a religious cult under the influence of its charismatic religious leader.
A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late '60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.
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