Nelly's version

Eva Figes

first published 1977 Pantheon, 1988 paperback 218 pages

"Nelly's Version could be described as Eva Figes' inventive reshaping of the pop psychological thriller. The story opens as Nelly Dean, a middle-aged woman suffering from amnesia, checks into a small-town hotel with a suitcase full of cash and no idea where it - or she - came from. Distrustful of everyone from the waiter who serves her lunch to a store clerk who claims to know her from grade school, Nelly fears she...

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Nelly's version edition · 2002 · Dalkey Archive Press · 218 pages
Nelly's Version paperback · 1988 · Pantheon · 224 pages · 9780006542049
NELLY'S VERSION paperback · 1988 · Pantheon · 218 pages · 9780679720355
Nelly's version edition · 1985 · Hamish Hamilton · 218 pages
Nelly's version edition · 1977 · Secker & Warburg · 218 pages

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