Mars-Jones, Adam. “Mrs Winterson’s Daughter”. London Review of Books, No. 2, pp. 3 - 8.
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Adam Mars-Jones
Standard Name: Mars-Jones, Adam
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Friends, Associates | Jeanette Winterson | JW
was a neighbour and friend of Adam Mars-Jones
in the 1980s. |
| Literary responses | Hilary Mantel | This novel was widely and positively reviewed. Grace Ingoldby
in the Sunday Times found it so gripping that it urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. |
| Literary responses | Jan Morris | Last Letters from Hav was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for fiction (despite which many readers continued the search for Hav in maps and gazetteers). Johns, Derek. Ariel. A Literary Life of Jan Morris. Faber and Faber, 2016. 160 |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | A generation after the novel's appearance, Adam Mars-Jones
called it an erratic piece of writing, with oddities of structure and point of view . . . . lumpy fables . . . sermonising [and a]... |
| Literary responses | Jeanette Winterson | Zoe Williams
found this book forceful and moving, tersely and urgently written, much darker than Winterson's fictionalized version of her early life. Williams, Zoe. “In search of peace”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 39 -40. 39 |
| Publishing | Jeanette Winterson | Winterson began writing the novel after she was turned down for a publishing job at Pandora Press
, because the interviewing editor suggested she should write a book about her early life. Adam Mars-Jones
has... |
Timeline
1983
Aileen La Tourette
contributed the storiesPassing and Cupiditas to Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones
.