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The Beginning of Spring
First edition cover
AuthorPenelope Fitzgerald
CountryRussia
LanguageEnglish
Published1988[1]
PublisherCollins[1]
Media typePrint
Pages224[1]

The Beginning of Spring is a 1988 novel by the British author Penelope Fitzgerald. Set in Moscow in 1913, it tells the story of a Moscow-born English-educated print shop owner whose English wife has suddenly abandoned him and their three children. The novel was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize.

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