About this ebook
Paul Bailey’s most ambitious and highly praised novel to date, Kitty and Virgil is fiendishly funny in its presentation of a love affair between two very distinct people who are yet alike. Kitty Crozier first laid eyes on Virgil Florescu, a dissident poet who swam across the Danube to escape Ceausescu's Romania, in the hospital. She woke up after surgery to find a stranger sitting beside her bed gazing at her. He just smiled at her, stood and left the room. She next saw him in London’s Green Park picking up litter from the grass with a long spike. So begins the most important, most demanding, most exhilarating relationship of Kitty's life. As their love for each other deepens, their previous lives and very different families reveal themselves to be oddly connected.
About the author
Paul Bailey is the author of At the Jerusalem (1967) which won the Somerset Maugham Award, Trespasses (1970), A Distant Likeness (1973), Peter Smart's Confessions (1977), shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Old Soldiers (1980), Gabriel's Lament (1986), also shortlisted for the Booker Prize and Sugar Cane (1993). He was the first recipient of the E.M. Forster Award and won a George Orwell Prize for his essay `The Limitations of Despair'.
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