In the year this novel was published MG
had been selected by the Book Marketing Council
for the Granta list of Best of Young British Novelists.
qtd. in
Gee, Maggie. Grace. Abacus, 1989.
prelims
Reception
Pat Barker
PB
has won several awards for her fiction. In 1982 the Book Marketing Council
named her one of Britain's top twenty young writers. In 1993 she received an Honorary MLitt. from the University of Teesside
Reception
Elizabeth Taylor
Ivy Compton-Burnett
wrote to her friend ET
of her great and lasting pleasure in this novel.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton, 1984.
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The Book Marketing Council
included it on its list of Best Novels of Our Time. Nevertheless most...
