![]() ![]() I loved her penultimate novel Exposure when I reviewed it at the end of April in 2016, and although I thought her earlier novel The Greatcoat ( reviewed in Arts Fuse in 2012) a bit contrived, I am only now beginning to go back to her earlier work and learning how enormous her talent was. As a winner of the inaugural Orange Prize (the best fiction by a woman), as well as many other honors, she was well-known in her native England, and deserves to be much better known here. ![]() Her energy and imagination seemed boundless, and her willingness to take risks in her fiction - writing about so many different times and places and people - made her unique in a time when so many of her contemporaries seem to be writing the same book over and over again. She was the author of fifteen novels as well as several books of poetry and children’s books. Helen Dunmore was a marvelous, fearless English writer who died far too young of cancer this past June at the age of 64. ![]() Helen Dunmore’s astounding final novel is a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution.īirdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore. ![]()
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