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The Quiet Woman

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The Quiet Woman

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Author: Christopher Priest
Publisher: Gollancz, 2014
Bloomsbury Publishing, 1990
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Book Type: Novel
Genre: Science-Fiction
Sub-Genre Tags: Slipstream
Dystopia
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THE QUIET WOMAN stitches together a horrifyingly plausable near-future dystopian Britain and a typically Priestian account of an individual lost in the blurred boundaries between the real and the imagined. It is a novel that bears comparison with the work of Kazuo Ishiguro and A.S. Byatt as well as that of John Wyndham.

In a country that has lost its way memories of past lives are distracting Alice Stockton. Living alone after the break up of her marriage she makes a precarious living as a biographer yet finds herself powerfully and inexplicably influenced by the lives of others.

A novel of uncertain personal histories and literary mystery set in a disturbingly real dystopian Britain, THE QUIET WOMAN is vintage Christopher Priest.


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  (9/4/2025)

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