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Amy and Isabelle

(1998)
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Awards
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book (nominee)
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book (nominee)
Women's Prize For Fiction Best Novel (nominee)
Isabelle Goodrow works in a dead-end job in a self-imposed exile with her daughter Amy, trying to cope with the shame she feels about her affair with Amy's father. When Amy, frustrated by her seemingly unemotional mother, begins her own affair, the relationship between the two deteriorates.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"A novel of shining integrity and humour." - Alice Munro


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