At Freddie’s

At Freddie’s

by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Publication Date: 07/03/2013

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From the Booker Prize-winner of ‘Offshore’ comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow.


It is the 1960s, in London’s West End, and Freddie is the formidable proprietress of the Temple Stage School. Of unknown age and provenance, Freddie is a skirt-swathed enigma – a woman who by sheer force of character and single-minded thrust has turned herself and her school into a national institution. Anyone who is anyone must know Freddie.


At Freddie’s is a wickedly droll comedy of the theatre and its terminally eccentric devotees.

ISBN:
9780007439676
9780007439676
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
07-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the most elegant and distinctive voices in British fiction. Three of her novels, The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring and The Gate of Angels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

She won the Prize in 1979 for Offshore. Her last novel, The Blue Flower, was the most admired novel of 1995, chosen no fewer than nineteen times in the press as the 'Book of the Year'.

It won America's National Book Critics' Circle Award. She died in April 2000, at the age of eighty-three.

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