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  The Beginning of Spring (Paperback) By (author) Penelope Fitzgerald

  

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  Short Description for The Beginning of SpringPenelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow.
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  • Publisher: Flamingo
  • Published: 27 April 1989
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Historical Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780006543701 ISBN 10: 0006543707
  • Sales rank: 36,711

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• Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-shortlisted novel about a troubled printworks in Moscow. Frank Reid had been born and brought up in Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a print-works which, by 1913, had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. In that same year, to add to his troubles, Frank's wife Nellie caught the train back home to England, without explanation. How is a reasonable man like Frank to cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglican chaplain's wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief book-keeper? How do people live together, and what happens when, sometimes, they don't?