Book description
In 1904, when she was six, Polly Flint went to live with her two holy
aunts at the yellow house by the marsh - so close to the sea that it
seemed to toss like a ship, so isolated that she might have been
marooned on an island. And there she stayed for eighty-one years, while
the century raged around her, while lamplight and Victorian order became
chaos and nuclear dread. Crusoe's Daughter, ambitious, moving and wholly
original, is her story. Jane Gardam has been awarded the Heywood Hill
Literary Prize for a lifetime's contribution to the enjoyment of
literature; has twice won a Whitbread Award and has been shortlisted for
the Booker Prize. She was awarded an OBE in January 2009.
