The Shadow of the Sun
  • Published: 6 December 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099889601
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99

The Shadow of the Sun

A Novel

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25 Feb 2021
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6 Dec 1991
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Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, A.S. Byatt’s debut novel – the moving story of a young woman’s struggle for independence and identity

It is the height of summer. After she is expelled from boarding school, Anna Severell returns to the strict, orderly house of her father, a celebrated novelist. The family is soon joined by Oliver Canning, a talented young academic who urges her to take control of her future. As autumn begins and Anna enters university, the pair grow closer. A single mistake, however, could put her newfound independence at risk…
  • Published: 6 December 1991
  • ISBN: 9780099889601
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $39.99
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About the author

A S Byatt

A.S. Byatt is a novelist, short-story writer and critic of international renown. Her novels include Possession (winner of the Booker Prize 1990), the Frederica Quartet and The Children’s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. She was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999, and was awarded the Erasmus Prize 2016 for her ‘inspiring contribution to life writing’ and the Pak Kyongni Prize 2017. In 2018 she received the Hans Christian Andersen Literature Award.

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