Full name: Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education

Author: Sybille Bedford Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction Culture: Germany Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781681371917 168137191X

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Sybille Bedford's latest novel walks the borderline between autobiography and fiction. It picks up where A Legacy leaves off, leading us from the Kaiser's Germany into the wider Europe of the 1920s and the limbo between world wars. The narrator, Billi, tells the story of her apprenticeship to life, and of her many teachers: her father, a pleasure-loving German baron; her brilliant, beautiful, erratic English mother; and later, on the Mediterranean coast of France, the Huxleys, Aldous and Maria. Similar books: A Legacy by Sybille Bedford The Kindness of Women by J. G. Ballard Cuts by Malcolm Bradbury The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson Sinister Street by Compton Mackenzie Jackson's Dilemma by Iris Murdoch Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley In Hazard by Richard Hughes Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis The Hothouse by the East River by Muriel Spark Lewis Percy by Anita Brookner Time of Hope by C. P. Snow The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh The Porcupine by Julian Barnes All That I Am by Anna Funder Marlene by C. W. Gortner Homecoming by Bernhard Schlink Young Adolf by Beryl Bainbridge