Gee said later that she thought this novel would win her the Booker Prize. She wrote it at twenty-five, in six months on the dole before beginning her PhD, and took seven years to get...
Publishing
Shena Mackay
SM
's A Bowl of Cherries: A Novel, her first in over a decade, was published by Harvester Press
after initial rejection some years before by Jonathan Cape
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Whitaker’s Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1988–2003.
(1988)
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Hamilton, Ian, 1938 - 2001. “Bohemian Rhapsodist”. The Guardian, 10 July 1999, pp. Saturday Review 6 - 7.
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Publishing
Shena Mackay
Before Babies in Rhinestones appeared, SM
completed a novel entitled A Bowl of Cherries, which reuses some parts of her unpublished The Firefly Motel. She submitted this, her first novel for over a...
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