num_pages: 448
description:          • "Of all the novelists that have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable-behind her books one feels a power of intellect quite exceptional in a novelist." -- Sunday Times   • "The most important novelist writing in my time." --A. S. Byatt
language: English
title: A Fairly Honourable Defeat
titlecomplete: A Fairly Honourable Defeat
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Philosophy, LGBT, Literature, Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 2204
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Booker Prize
category: The Lost Man Booker Prize Longlist
publisher: Penguin Books