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“I Wanted to Write a Quartet”: Joanna Kavenna Gives a Nod to Lawrence Durrell (1 August 2011).

In The Birth of Love (Faber 2010), Joanna Kavenna sought to fashion a novel in which reality was “entirely inflected by the altered concerns of a woman who is in labour.” That ideal demanded the discovery of a storytelling form … Continue reading

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