ISBN The Bookshop, The Gate Of Angels And The Blue Flower book English 608 pages

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life.The Bookshopis a contemporary comedy of manners, set in a provincial town. InThe Gate of Angelsromance is combined with the novel of ideas; whileThe Blue Flowerrevitalizes historical drama in a study of the eighteenth-century German writer Novalis. Fitzgerald being the genius of the relevant detail and the deftly sketched conceptual context, each book conjures up a different world in a few vivid pages which remain etched on the memory.