by Jane Gardam · Abacus · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780349114026
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«Bilgewater» is the novel by Jane Gardam, published by Abacus in paperback (208 pages, in English).
Marigold Green thinks she is «horrible, picturesque and dotty» and is nicknamed Bilgewater, a corruption of «Bill's daughter». She grows up in the boys' boarding school where her father is housemaster, convinced of her ugliness. Between wise Paula, beautiful Grace and the wrong boy, she lives the shocks of adolescence with irony and misadventure.
It is aimed at readers of coming-of-age novels and literary fiction with humor, interested in a peculiar protagonist and a boys' boarding school setting.
Jane Mary Gardam was an English writer of children's and adult fiction and literary critic. She also penned reviews for The Spectator and The Telegraph and wrote for BBC Radio. She lived in Kent, Wimbledon and Yorkshire. She won numerous literary awards, including the Whitbread Award twice. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2005.
