num_pages: 566
description: The Virgin in the Garden is the first novel to feature Frederica Potter, and the beginning of a triumphant quartet of novels. Set in Yorkshire in 1952 as the inhabitants of the area set about celebrating the accession of a new Queen, this is the tale of a brilliant and eccentric family fatefully divided. The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully entertaining novel, in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and comedy intersect richly and unpredictably.
language: English
title: The Virgin in the Garden
titlecomplete: The Virgin in the Garden (The Frederica Quartet, #1)
characters: Frederica Potter, Alexander Wedderburn
genres: British Literature, Historical, Contemporary, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Womens
ratings_count: 3349
places: Blesford, Yorkshire, England
series: The Frederica Quartet
publisher: Vintage Books