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Peripheral Vision

(2008)
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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
A novel connecting disperate women at different times in their lives, and in history. Sylvia, a brilliant and successful eye surgeon is nevertheless amazed to find herself pregnant, despite taking no precautions. Iris, a timid young woman in love with a man from a different social stratum. And Ruby, a 1950's housewife who receives poison pen letters, which she believes she thoroughly deserves. Linking these women is a fascinating thread that weaves their lives together. Peripheral Vision is a powerful new novel about love and the lack of it; about loss, mothering, sight and insight, from this prize-winning author. Patricia Ferguson's last novel, It So Happens, was listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2005. Now read on.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"Humane, complex, disquieting and very funny... just as enjoyable and skillful as Kingsley Amis's Ending Up or Muriel Spark's Memento Mori." - Amanda Craig


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