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A Far Cry from Kensington is a novel (roman à clef) by British author Muriel Spark, published in 1988. Plot introduction [ edit ] Set in 1954, it is narrated by Agnes (known as Nancy) Hawkins; a young war widow lodging in a rooming house in South Kensington and working as an editor at a struggling publishing house.
- Muriel Spark
- United Kingdom
- 1988
- Pat Doyle
1 gen 2001 · A Far Cry from Kensington looks back, through the narrator/Mrs Hawkins, into its heyday after WW2. And it serves as a parallel to religion, especially Catholicism (as represented by Milly and Wanda), and human belief in the intangible and irrational.
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- Muriel Spark
Jane McChrystal In A Far Cry from Kensington envy and paranoia pervade the world created by Muriel Spark, where down-at-heel lodgers, failing publishers and unpublishable writers make their way through life in London nine years after the second world war. The entire city remains scarred by bomb damage, with its inhabitants trapped in a state
11 set 2020 · A far cry from Kensington by Spark, Muriel, 1918-Publication date 1989 Topics Fiction in English 1945- Texts Publisher Harmondsworth : Penguin Collection
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Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry from Kensington, takes us well in hand, and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London.
A Far Cry from Kensington Fiction by Muriel Spark. Nancy Hawkins, the majestic narrator of A Far Cry From Kensington, takes us by the hand and leads us back to her threadbare years in postwar London, where she spent her days working for a mad, near-bankrupt publisher (“of very good books”) and her nights dispensing advice at her small South Kensington boarding house.
