Penelope Fitzgerald was a Booker Prize-winning English novelist, poet, essayist, and biographer. In 2008, the Times included her in a list of 'The 50 greatest British writers since 1945.' In 2012, the Observer named her final novel, The Blue Flower, as one of 'the ten best historical novels.'
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The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the r... SEE MORE