The Virgin in the Garden — A. S. Byatt

Title: The Virgin in the Garden

Author: A. S. Byatt

Publisher: Penguin Books

Format: Paperback

Edition: Penguin paperback edition, 1981

ISBN: 0140116869

Condition: Second-hand. Vintage paperback with light shelf wear, rubbing to edges and spine, mild age-toning to pages, and an old retail price sticker on the rear cover. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

Set in Yorkshire in the early 1950s, The Virgin in the Garden follows the Potter family as the local community prepares to celebrate the arrival of a new Queen. Around them, a verse drama about Elizabeth I creates echoes between the Elizabethan past and the post-war present. It is a layered literary novel about family, art, adolescence, history, sexuality and English identity.