The quiet architecture of ordinary lives.
New novel forthcoming from the author of The Linden Trees and Winter Light.
New novel forthcoming from the author of The Linden Trees and Winter Light.
A widowed schoolteacher returns to the village of her childhood and finds the past has not remained still. Shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize.
Three generations of women navigate silence, inheritance, and the long shadow of the war across a single Yorkshire winter.
Margaret Hale was born in 1948 in the West Riding of Yorkshire. She read English at Somerville College, Oxford, and worked for many years as a librarian in Leeds before publishing her first novel at forty-four. Her work has been praised for its precise attention to domestic detail and the moral lives of unremarkable people.
“A novelist of rare moral intelligence. The Linden Trees is a masterpiece of restraint.”
— Penelope Fitzgerald
“No one now writing captures the texture of English provincial life with such unsentimental clarity.”
— A. S. Byatt
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