![]() Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.’ Sebastian Faulks Everything is of top quality – the engine, the coachwork and the interior all fill you with confidence. ‘Reading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Her final book, it confirmed her reputation as one of the finest novelists of the century. One of the most admired of all Penelope Fitzgerald’s books, The Blue Flower was chosen as Book of the Year more than any other in 1995. It is a betrothal which amuses, astounds and disturbs his family and friends. ![]() ![]() ![]() The passionate and idealistic Fritz needs his father’s permission to announce his engagement to his ‘heart’s heart’, his ‘true Philosophy’, twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis. From the Booker Prize-winning author of Offshore and Innocence comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancée Sophie. ![]()
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