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Title: THE GATE OF ANGELS
By: Penelope Fitzgerald, Philip Hensher
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 000654360X
ISBN 13: 9780006543602
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Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pub. date: 4 September, 1991
Pages: 176
Description: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.
Synopsis: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate. Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything. Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she's quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Fourth Estate Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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