Adventures Newly Narrated: Jessica Francis Kane on Penelope Fitzgerald’s Lost Adventure

The late English novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, author of The Blue Flower and The Bookshop, drew extensively from her own life for her fiction—her Booker Prize–winning novel Offshore, for instance, was rooted in her family's experience living on a houseboat on the Thames. According to Public Books, Jessica Francis Kane is now recounting a newly narrated adventure from Fitzgerald's life, though the source excerpt does not include the full details.

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