Nina Bawden

WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN AWARD FOR CHILDREN'S FICTION 'Warm and funny, this tale of a pint-size pig and the family he saves will take up…

BY THE BELOVED AUTHOR OF CARRIE'S WAR AND THE PEPPERMINT PIG 'A subtle and many-layered story, one of Nina Bawden's best' OBSERVER 'What a consummate…

Accidents happen to other people. But on On May 10th 2002, Nina Bawden discovered what it feels like to be one of the 'other people'.…

SHORTLISTED FOR THE LOST MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Nina Bawden gets inside the skins of all her people and shows them as paradoxical, crotchety, adulterous, ambitious…

'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden has always presented such ingratiating characters that you wonder, distantly, at her interest in Anna' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Throughout her…

'Bawden has concentrated on the careful depiction of character, feelings and behaviour' GUARDIAN 'On every page there is a shock of recognition' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Among…

'Marvellous . . . Funny, subtle, sympathetic' OBSERVER 'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'Bawden's contemporary truths, laced…

'Absorbing and quietly uncompromising, redolent with the vibrant smells and colours of Majorca, and of Spain' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A highly revealing account, not only of…

'Dazzlingly effective . . . not easy to forget' FINANCIAL TIMES 'Continually surprising, witty and often disquieting, Walking Naked is one of Nina Bawden's most…

'A sophisticated comedy, hugely enjoyable' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A gently entertaining tale of summer love and Brits abroad' HARPERS AND QUEEN 'The story proceeds at…

'A darkly comedic tale of adultery that features a dangerously "good" and disciplined heroine' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'Throughout her career Bawden has concentrated on the careful…

'This is the off-side of lust in plush suburbia, described by a crypto-moralist with a mischievous sense of humour' SUNDAY TIMES 'A born story-teller' INDEPENDENT…

'A cast of nice, idiosyncratic characters . . . in the Turkish political climate' NEW YORK TIMES 'She held her readers' attention with her taut,…

'The reader is thoroughly entranced and entertained' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'There's a speck…

'A born story teller' INDEPENDENT 'Nina Bawden's readers should be numbered like the sands of the sea' GUARDIAN 'The first time the children saw the…

'One of the wisest and most versatile of our novelists' CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, GUARDIAN 'So intelligent and clear-eyed that every page seems to peel another layer…

'It is a measure of Bawden's skill, that she manages to show both the terrors of extreme longevity and its comic potential' THE TIMES 'An…

'Beautifully observed' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Among the most perceptive and accomplished novelists writing today' P. D. JAMES 'Nina Bawden's powerful exploration of deception gradually unfolds a…

'A born story-teller, a gift as evident in this autobiography as in her novels' INDEPENDENT 'A joy' David Holloway, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Casts light on the…