Jigsaw (novel)
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{{italic title}}{{Short description|1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford}}{{Infobox book
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| author = Sybille Bedford
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| pub_date = 1989
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Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education is a 1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford. It shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year.{{cite web|title=Man Booker Prize: Shortlists and Winners|url=http://www.e-anglais.com/lectures/Booker_Prize.html#1989|website=e-Anglais.com|accessdate=12 September 2016}} In many ways a follow-up to her earlier work, A Legacy, it is the story of a girl called Billi as she grows up and experiences sexual, intellectual and emotional awakenings. When Billi's father dies, she leaves behind her childhood in Germany for life with her morphine-addicted mother on the French Riviera.
The novel met with great acclaim when it was published,{{cite journal|last1=Guppy|first1=Shusha|title=Sybille Bedford, An Interview|journal=Paris Review|date=Spring 1993|issue=126|url=http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1963/an-interview-sybille-bedford|accessdate=12 September 2016}} and Victoria Glendinning and Roger Kimball both cite it as evidence of Bedford's underrated brilliance.{{cite news|last1=Glendinning|first1=Victoria|title=Sybille Bedford: Credit where it's long overdue|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/mar/13/sybille-bedford-legacy-centenary|accessdate=12 September 2016|publisher=The Observer|date=13 March 2011}}{{cite journal|last1=Kimball|first1=Roger|title=Without Rancour: Sybille Bedford's Achievement|journal=The New Criterion|date=April 1994|volume=12|issue=8|page=11|url=https://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Without-rancor--Sybille-Bedford-s-achievement-4923|accessdate=12 September 2016}} It was republished by Eland in 2005, and released in a new edition by Eland in 2012.{{cite web|title=Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education|url=http://www.travelbooks.co.uk/shop-online-books/jigsaw?rq=jigsaw|website=Eland Books|accessdate=12 September 2016}}