JW
was a neighbour and friend of Adam Mars-Jones
in the 1980s.
Mars-Jones, Adam. “Mrs Winterson’s Daughter”. London Review of Books, Vol.
34
, No. 2, 26 Jan. 2012, pp. 3-8.
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Editor Nicci Gerrard
was a longtime friend of JW
's until personal differences over Gerrard's review of Art and Lies caused a...
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, 25 Nov. 2011, pp. 39-40.
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Adam Mars-Jones
pointed out what he took to be discrepancies between this...
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.
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
The Booker shortlisting, wrote JM
, turned out to...
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 stories...
Women writers item
1983
Aileen La Tourette
contributed the stories Passing and Cupiditas to Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones
.
La Tourette, Aileen. “Passing”. Mae West Is Dead: Recent Lesbian and Gay Fiction, edited by Adam Mars-Jones, Faber and Faber, 1983, pp. 178-81.