The Poet’s Wife

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Susan Smith
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Laura Longrigg
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Diana Tyler
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Susan Smith
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Susan Smith
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Diana Tyler
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David Riding
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Susan Smith
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Laura Longrigg
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David Riding
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Laura Longrigg
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Susan Smith
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Diana Tyler
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Laura Longrigg
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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David Riding
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Laura Longrigg
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David Riding
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Susan Smith
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Laura Longrigg
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David Riding
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Susan Smith
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David Riding
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Laura Longrigg
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Susan Smith
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Susan Smith
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Susan Smith
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Susan Smith
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Susan Smith
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Sophie Gorell Barnes
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Diana Tyler
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Laura Longrigg
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Diana Tyler
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David Riding
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Susan Smith
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Diana Tyler
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David Riding
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Laura Longrigg
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David Riding
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David Riding
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David Riding
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David Riding
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Diana Tyler
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Laura Longrigg
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Diana Tyler
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Fiction
Publisher:
Black Swan
Publication date:
Feb-10
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Shortlisted for the East Midlands Book Award Patty is married to John Clare: peasant poet, genius and madman. Travelling home one day, Patty finds her husband sitting, footsore, at the side of the road, having absconded from a lunatic asylum over eighty miles away. Hopeful that his condition has improved, she takes his hands in delight but he fails to recognize her. She is devastated to discover that he has not returned home to find her, but to search for his childhood sweetheart, Mary Joyce, to whom he believes he is married. Patty still loves John deeply, but he seems lost to her, obsessed with the idealised image of a woman that she cannot possibly match. Plagued by jealousy, she seeks strength in memories: their whirlwind courtship, the poems John wrote for her, their shared affinity for the land. She must try to heal John’s turbulent, unhappy soul and restore him to the man she married. But as John descends further into delusion and his behaviour becomes increasingly volatile, hope seems to be fading. Will she ever be able to conquer her own anger and hurt and reconcile with this man she now barely knows? THE POET’S WIFE is a novel about the limits of love. Lyrical, absorbing, deeply moving, Judith Allnatt’s fine sensibility for human complexity and the natural world are hard to forget.
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"…a beautifully written, poignant novel, lyrically descriptive of the landscape, detailed in the country life of the time and reminiscent of the gentle style of the genius peasant poet."Choice Magazine"Clare often pops up in fiction, but it was high time someone rescued his poor wife from footnote-land. Allnatt (herself a poet) gives her an affecting, beautifully written afterlife."Kate Saunders, The Times
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