A Whistling Woman

This intoxicating novel stands on its own while forming a triumphant conclusion to A. S. Byatt’s great quartet depicting the clashing forces in English life from the early 1950s to 1970. While Federica falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves A Whistling Woman is the ultimate novel of ideas made flesh – gloriously sensual, sexy and scary, bursting with ideas and wonderful humanity.