![]() ![]() Perhaps her fearlessness came from her intimate knowledge of fear. ![]() I can recommend with the highest marks her two novels about Russia after the war - Betrayal and The Siege - as well as this astounding last novel, Birdcage Walk, a fascinating take on a family of radicals living in Bristol, England during the French Revolution. 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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