"Girl Reading is a debut of rare individuality and distinction. Katie Ward inhabits each of her seven scenes, her seven eras, with a fluent and intuitive touch, and sentence by sentence, deft and mercurial, she surpasses the readers' expectations The writing is full of light and shadow, alive with fresh and startling perceptions.". In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls reading—their lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The author’s prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful. From the start we are caught up in the characters, the stories of young women who read/5. "Girl Reading is a debut of rare individuality and distinction. Katie Ward inhabits each of her seven scenes, her seven eras, with a fluent and intuitive touch, and sentence by sentence, deft and mercurial, she surpasses the readers' expectations/5(95).
A few months later it was a joy to discover that Girl Reading by Katie Ward was listed for the February Book Group National Gallery Victoria (NGV). Girl Reading is a collection of seven rich and complex stories bursting with similes, metaphors, parallels and contrasts, loosely linked by the image of a female caught in the act of reading. Girl Reading by Katie Ward - review. This debut is a collection of subtle portraits rather than a novel, but none the worse for that. Joanna Briscoe. Tue 6 Sep EDT. Katie Ward wrote a novel called Girl Reading in which each chapter fictionalises the story behind a painting of a girl reading. Se explores the symbolism of a girl reading and how the intimacy we.
Katie Ward was born in Somerset in She has worked in the public and voluntary sectors, including at a women’s refuge and for a Member of Parliament. She took a career break in order to write her debut novel, Girl Reading, after coming across an article about a book of portraits of women and girls reading. In Girl Reading, a debut novel, Katie Ward paints seven portraits of girls reading—their lives, their conflicts, their passions, their griefs. The author’s prose is rich, her syntax spare, exact, sometimes provocative, often surprising, usually delightful. From the start we are caught up in the characters, the stories of young women who read. "Girl Reading is a debut of rare individuality and distinction. Katie Ward inhabits each of her seven scenes, her seven eras, with a fluent and intuitive touch, and sentence by sentence, deft and mercurial, she surpasses the readers' expectations.
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