Elizabeth Mavor
A Green Equinox
A Green Equinox
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Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. She develops an adoration for Hugh Shafto's wife Belle, leading to other unexpected feelings for Belle's mother-in-law, Kate Shafto. This novel is a mix between Beatrix Potter, JG Ballard, and Sophocles, offering a sprawling pleasure and tragicomedy of intergenerational queer desire.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 208 pages
Publication date: 07 September 2023
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
While I waited for sleep, I retraced the road that had brought me to you. To my amazement, it only took six months, from equinox to equinox. This dazzling rediscovered classic, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1973, is a heady, witty, and seductive exploration of female sexuality—perfect for fans of Iris Murdoch and Brigid Brophy.
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Funny and brave and moving and absolutely bonkers. I love this novel!
CHARLOTTE MENDELSON
A transgressive classic. . . intrepid, eccentric, and not giving a damn.
OBSERVER
Elizabeth Mavor relishes spirited, unorthodox women, free with their tongues and ready to snap their fingers at convention.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
Hero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. First, her quiet but forbidden liaison with Hugh Shafto, the curator of the country's finest collection of Rococo art, comes to an abrupt halt when she develops an adoration for his straight-talking, do-gooding wife, Belle. But this relationship leads to other, even more unexpected feelings for Belle's widowed mother-in-law, the majestic Kate Shafto, who spends her days tending her garden and sailing her handmade boats in the waters of the miniature archipelago she's constructed in a disused gravel pit.
A strange little nugget of a novel. . . I'd like any book that could be described as a mix between Beatrix Potter, JG Ballard, and Sophocles.
Irish Times
A sprawling pleasure (come for the oddly troubled surface of a reclaimed gravel-pit, stay for the tragicomedy of intergenerational queer desire)
ELEY WILLIAMS
Weight: 168g
Dimension: 127 x 197 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780349018393
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