Walking naked - Nina Bawden

Laura is happily married, a mother and a successful novelist. Interweaving memory and reflection, this novel telescopes the whole of Laura's life - childhood, marriages, triumphs and disappointments - into one day. The author's novel
Circles of Deceit
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Nina Bawden (1925-2012) was one of Britain's best-loved writers for both adults and children. Several of her children's books - Carrie's War, a Phoenix Award winner;The Peppermint Pig, which won the Guardian Fiction Award; and Keeping Henry - have become contemporary classics. She wrote over forty novels, slightly more than half of which are for adults, and she was shortlisted for the 1987 Man Booker Prize for Circles of Deceit. She received the prestigious S T Dupont Golden Pen Award for a lifetime's contribution to literature in 2004, and in 2010 The Birds on the Trees was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.