![]() ![]() The chapters are concise and this encouraged me to ‘just read another’ and so, gradually, almost without realizing, I fell into the story. The Blue Flower is a short novel, 223 pages. ![]() He is a young man so self-contained, so absorbed in his thoughts, that I wondered where the drama would arise. Set in 18 th century Germany, Fitzgerald tells her imagining of the teenage story of real German poet and philosopher Fritz von Hardenberg, later called Novalis. For someone about to read it, it can seem a trifle intimidating. ![]() When I bought it, I didn’t realize it was the last novel by the Booker prize winner published five years before her death in 2000 aged 83. If ever there is a book to persevere with, to have patience with, and to go back and re-read again, it is The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald. ![]()
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