A Masculine Ending

· A&C Black
Ebook
192
Pages

About this ebook

Loretta Lawson, a feminist professor visiting Paris to deliver a paper on the oppressive nature of masculine grammatical forms, stumbles across the murder of an Oxford don.

But when the body disappears, she returns to England without alerting the French police, but is resolved to solve the mystery from across the Channel.

The BBC adaptation of A Masculine Ending, starring Bill Nighy and Imelda Staunton, premiered in 1992.

'I love Loretta' - P.D. James

'Ms. Smith is a literate writer who, in this accomplished novel, manages both to educate and to entertain, which is no mean achievement.' - The New York Times

About the author

Joan Alison Smith is an English novelist, journalist and human rights activist. She is a former chair of the Writers in Prison committee in the English section of International PEN.

After a spell as a journalist in local radio in Manchester, she worked at the Sunday Times until 1984. She contributes book reviews for the Sunday Times, has a regular column in the Guardian Weekend supplement, and contributes to The Independent, the Independent on Sunday, and the New Statesman.

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