Annal:1991 Whitbread Book Award for Novel
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Results of the Whitbread Book Award in the year 1991. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1991 Whitbread-Novel winner
- Score: 10.41
Eliza Peabody is one of those dangerously blameless women who believes she has God in her pocket. She is too enthusiastic; she talks too much. Her concern for the welfare of her wealthySouth London neighbours extends to ingenuous well-meaning notes of unsolicited adviceunder the door. It is just such a one-sided correspondence that heralds Eliza’s undoing. Did her letter have something to do with the woman’s abrupt disappearance ? Why will no-one else speak of her? And why the watchful, pitying looks and embarassment that now greet her?
