title: Girl Reading: A Novel
author:  Katie Ward 
description: "Ambitious in range and technically impressive...["Girl Reading] "is undoubtedly the work of a writer to watch." --"Kirkus"<br /><br />"Girl Reading is a debut of rare individuality and distinction. Katie Ward inhabits each of her seven scenes, her seven eras, with a fluent and intuitive touch, and sentence by sentence, deft and mercurial, she surpasses the readers' expectations. What is set down on the page has a rich and allusive hinterland, so that the reader's imagination has a space to work, and what is unsaid has its own fascination. The writing is full of light and shadow, alive with fresh and startling perceptions." -Hilary Mantel, author of the Man Booker Prize winning "Wolf Hall"<br /><br />Book of the Week: "This isn't a novel - it's a time machine! Well, nearly. As each chapter transports you to a completely different century, you'll find yourself wondering if Ward has her very own Tardis ... I guarantee the stories will relate to your own life in some way - if you're planning to pack any holiday books this year, make sure "Girl Reading" is one of them."""--"Cosmopolitan "(UK)<br /><br />Book of the Week: "Katie Ward's assured debut is inspired by that mysterious and provocative subject of a thousand visual images: a woman reading . . . In each chapter Ward twists a story around real works of art. Her seven unpredictable tales serve up a lively, irreverent and even feminist journey through history.
zlib_text: _Also by Katie Flynn_
  
  A Liverpool Lass  
  The Girl from Penny Lane  
  Liverpool Taffy  
  The Mersey Girls  
  Strawberry Fields  
  Rainbow’s End  
  Rose of Tralee  
  Polly’s Angel  
  The Girl from Seaforth Sands  
  The Liverpool Rose  
  Poor Little Rich Girl  
  The Bad Penny  
  Down Daisy Street  
  A Kiss and a Promise  
  Two Penn’orth of Sky  
  A Long and Lonely Road  
  The Cuckoo Child  
  Darkest Before Dawn  
  Orphans of the Storm  
  Little Girl Lost  
  Beyond the Blue Hills  
  Forgotten Dreams  
  Sunshine and Shadows
  
   _About the Author_
  
  Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the Northwest. A compulsive writer,
  she started with short stories and articles and many of her early stories were
  broadcast on Radio Mersey. She decided to write her Liverpool series after
  hearing the reminiscences of family members about life in the city in the
  early years of the century. She also writes as Judith Saxton. For the past
  several years she has had to cope with ME but has continued to write.
  
   _Praise for Katie Flyn