Pure Juliet
  • Published: 15 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784870270
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99

Pure Juliet

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Never before published, the lost novel by the bestselling author of Cold Comfort Farm

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.

No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother. And clothes, boys, school, friends, the changing seasons and what other people think - none of these things seem to matter to Juliet. She spends hours in her room with incomprehensible mathematical text books, her mind voyaging in strange seas of thought, alone. Is she a genius? It might take the rest of her life to find out.

While Stella Gibbons was celebrated for her beloved bestseller Cold Comfort Farm, the manuscript for Pure Juliet lay unseen and forgotten until it was brought to light by her family in 2014, and is published here for the first time in Vintage Classics. A tale that travels from an eco-millionaire's British country idyll to an Arabian Nights-style fantasy of the Middle East, this is a treat for fans of this witty, curious and always surprising author.
  • Published: 15 January 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784870270
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons is best known for her comic masterpiece Cold Comfort Farm. A witty parody of the pastoral fiction written by authors such as D H Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb, it won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais in 1933 and established her literary reputation. Gibbons also wrote 22 other novels, including Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) and Starlight (1967), as well as three volumes of short stories and four poetry collections. She died in 1989, aged 87.

Also by Stella Gibbons

Enbury Heath
The Yellow Houses
My American
Ticky
Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm
The Bachelor
The Matchmaker
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Praise for Pure Juliet

Fans of the acclaimed British author, described as the "Jane Austen of the 20th century" will be delighted that the existence of two never-before-published novels have been revealed by her daughter.

Independent

Stella Gibbons's gift is very special

Daily Express

Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on

Mail on Sunday

An intriguingly original story.

Libby Purves, The Times

Gibbons portrays her heroine with such sensitivity that this young woman and her story prove impossible to resist.

Sarah Pitcher, Daily Express

Told with characteristic wit.

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