Still Life, Paperback

A.S. Byatt's sequel to >The Virgin in the Garden< is an observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. Frederica Potter fits well into life at Cambridge University, hungry, as she is, for knowledge, sex and love. Meanwhile, back in Yorkshire, her sister settles for family life and in London Alexander Wedderburn struggles to write a play about Van Gogh. A Vintage title.