The Gate of Angels

by Penelope Fitzgerald

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

It is 1912, and at Cambridge University the modern age is knocking at the gate.

Fred Fairly, a Junior Fellow at the college of St Angelicus, where for centuries no female, not even a pussy cat, has been allowed to set foot, lectures in physics. Science, he is certain, will explain everything.

Until into Fred's orderly life come Daisy. Fred is smitten. Why have I met her? he wonders. How can I tell if she's quite what she seems? Fred is a scientist. To him the truth should be everything. But even scientists make mistakes.

  • ISBN10 0385421508
  • ISBN13 9780385421508
  • Publish Date 1 December 1991 (first published 23 August 1990)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Nan A. Talese
  • Edition In the USA ed.
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 167
  • Language English