Despite beginning her writing career later in life, Fitzgerald is now included amongst the greatest authors of the century and The Blue Flower is regarded as a literary masterpiece. Giving voice to a persistent reaching for the stars and beyond, The Blue Flower is a fitting title for Penelope Fitzgerald’s final novel, which was written when she was already seventy-nine. It feels appropriate to inaugurate the ADONE book club with a novel that celebrates a longing for the unreachable, a striving for the transcendental beyond, for what are books but imagined windows onto great unknowns and worlds just beyond our reach? Stemming from within the dawn of the Romantic period, the blue flower was, and remains, a symbol of aspiration towards intellectual creativity. KB: Well, I’m going to dive right into opening remarks, Lindsay.
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