Bilgewater Book

Praise for Bilgewater

"Female adolescence as imagined by one of the 20th century's best—and most peculiar—writers."
—Kirkus Reviews

"Lively...excellent."
—The Times

"A striking story."
—TLS


Praise for Jane Gardam

"[Gardam] is a brilliant writer. Her prose sparkles with wit, compassion and humor."
—The Washington Post

"[Gardam] is the best kind of literary escape: serious, mesmerizing, and deeply satisfying."
—Los Angeles Review of Books

"It's hard...not to be charmed by a writer with Gardam's substantial gifts."
—The New York Times Book Review

"Gardam's prose is so economical that no moment she describes is either gratuitous or wasted."
—The New Yorker

"Gardam is a unique and wonderful writer."
—The Huffington Post