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Youthful beauty, intellectual brilliance, physical passion, tragedy and disgrace are all in this wonderful new Patrick Gale novel as told through the eyes of a 14 year old girl. Phil is a self-contained, exceptionally bright child who has no known parents and has spent all her life in a children's home. Her life is transformed when she wins a scholarship to Tatham's, a kind of Oxbridge university for teenagers, but this is only the start of an education as much emotional as intellectual. She falls hopelessly in love with Lucas, adored gay son of a wealthy Jewish family and, through him, is drawn into a tangle of betrayed friendship and forbidden passions that ends in tragedy and disgrace. But school is only half the story. Spanning the years 1975 to 1979 the chapters alternate between terms and holidays, between Phil's dogged pursuit of the glittering prizes and her slow, painful discovery of who she is and where she belon
| ISBN-13 | 9780007151004 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0007151004 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 pages |
| Publisher | 4th Estate |
| Published On | 2005-01-01 |
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Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 340 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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Size: 9x5x1; New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!
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