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The first book published by A. S. Byatt is?

  • Shadow of a Sun

  • The Virgin in the Garden

  • The Game

  • A Whistling Woman

Answer

Shadow of a Sun is the first novel written by British novelist A. S. Byatt. It was published in 1964 and won the Somerset Maugham Award for Fiction. The novel is set in England in the 1950s and tells the story of a young woman named Justine who is torn between her love for her husband and her desire for independence.
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