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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education, by Sybille Bedford
€5.00

Quay Books
This intensely remembered, partly autobiographical novel describes the childhood of Billi, a girl growing up in Europe between the wars.
When her father dies, she swaps life in a run-down German château for an exhilarating existence with her beautiful, talented and unreliable mother on the French Riviera. Sent away to England for schooling, the gypsy-like Billi ricochets between short-lived tutors and a life of reading, friends and public lectures.
Returning to the Mediterranean, her unorthodox education - intellectual, emotional and sexual - continues among the vibrant community of artists, exiles and intellectuals who have colonised the coast, coaxing her towards a life of literature.
“There will always be people for whom her books are part of their mind’s life, and people who are discovering her for the first time as if entering a lighted room.” - The Guardian
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