Conceit

Mary Novik

first published 2007 Doubleday Canada, 2007 402 pages

Mary Novik's debut novel, Conceit (Doubleday 2007), is about Pegge Donne, the daughter of the Metaphysical poet John Donne, and is set in 17th century London. Other fictional characters based on historical people are Donne's wife Ann More, the diarist Samuel Pepys, and the fisherman Izaak Walton. Conceit has been praised for its "breathtaking ambition". It won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was nominated for the...

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Conceit edition · 2008 · Anchor Canada · 416 pages · 9780385662062
Conceit edition · 2007 · Doubleday Canada · 402 pages · 9780385662055

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