by Jo Baker · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781846273810
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«The Picture Book» is the historical and family novel by Jo Baker, published by Portobello in paperback (452 pages, in English).
Portrait of four generations of a British family over a century: William, a worker killed at Gallipoli; Billy, a cyclist who survives the Normandy landings; Will, an academic at Oxford; and Billie, an artist in present-day London. Names, decisions and secrets echo from parents to children.
Originally published in 2011, the novel belongs to historical fiction and family saga; the cover includes a comment by Glenn Patterson.
For readers of historical fiction and family sagas with an interest in twentieth-century British history.
Jo Baker is a British writer. She is the author of six novels, including Longbourn. She has also written short stories for BBC Radio 4 and reviews for The Guardian and The New York Times Book Review. In 2018, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the Queen's University Belfast, and she is currently an Honorary Fellow at Lancaster University.
