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The Gate of Angels - L.H. Myers; Introduction Penelope Fitzgerald
The Gate of Angels
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In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger - fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications - not only of the heart but also of the head - as Fred... show more
In 1912, rational Fred Fairly, one of Cambridge's best and brightest, crashes his bike and wakes up in bed with a stranger - fellow casualty Daisy Saunders, a charming, pretty, generous working-class nurse. So begins a series of complications - not only of the heart but also of the head - as Fred and Daisy take up each other's education and turn each other's philosophies upside down.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780395848388 (0395848385)
ASIN: 0395848385
Publisher: Mariner Books
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
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Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
2.0
Saturday afternoon drama on a Friday night: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0183dzq/Saturday_Drama_The_Gate_of_Angels/Dramatised by Yvonne AntrobusPenelope Fitzgerald's 1990 novel, set in Edwardian London and Cambridge, exploring love, religion, physics and the random nature of chance.tried th...
carey
carey rated it
Confusing, boring and uninteresting
Tesseract Thoughts
Tesseract Thoughts rated it
3.0
Not much to say here. I guess I just don't find any humor in the descriptions of British gentleman hanging out in social clubs and waxing poetic. I enjoyed quite a bit more the story of Daisy.A simple love tale in an old English style.
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