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In that season, always, the words and the colors would go straight to her head.
Sylvia Brownrigg is a novelist and reviewer. She was born in California where she spent much of her childhood before moving to Oxford with her family. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in philosophy. She now lives in London and reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. She is the author of two previous critically acclaimed works, a short-story collection Ten Women Who Shook the World and a novel, The Metaphysical Touch.
‘An exuberant feat of storytelling that you simply can’t help falling for’ Leo Walstow, Glamour
‘A thrillingly intimate book, and just the right read for the feeling-frisky season. Swoonsomely romantic’ Eithne Farry, Elle Magazine
‘A hauntingly beautiful love develops . . . in this tale either for young readers first discovering who they are and how they love, or for those remembering a rose-coloured past’ Booklist, Amazon.com
‘She is obviously one of the most exciting new writers of her generation’ James Wood
‘Language is the real object of infatuation here. An atmosphere gradually forms in which words are as seductive as bodies . . .’ Independent on Sunday
Also by Sylvia Brownrigg
Ten Women Who Shook the World
The Metaphysical Touch
First published 2001 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York
This edition published 2002 by Picador
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