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      Walking Naked

      by Nina Bawden
      Published
      Dec 1981
      Main Genre
      Gothic Gothic
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      221
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      'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES

      'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Bawden's most impressive novels' COSMOPOLITAN

      'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES

      Laura is happily married, a mother and a successful novelist. Although she is prey to night terrors, she is adept at smoothing the disorder of reality into controlled prose. Walking Naked telescopes the whole of Laura's life - childhood, marriages, triumphs and disappointments - into a day in which the past and present converge. It begins with a game of tennis played for duty rather than amusement and progresses, via an afternoon party of old friends and jaded emotions, to a bewildering visit to Laura's son, imprisoned on a drugs' charge. At its close, the possibility of death within the family hauls unresolved conflicts centre stage and Laura strips herself of the posturing and self-deceit with which she has cloaked her vulnerability.

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      Romance

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      Gothic

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      Nov 2006 Little, Brown (UK) ISBN13 9781844084371 ISBN10 184408437X
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      First Edition Dec 1981 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312854560 ISBN10 0312854560
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      Jul 1992 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9781853814440 ISBN10 185381444X
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      Nov 2011 Little, Brown ISBN13 9780748127658 ISBN10 0748127658
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