The Booker Prize-winning author of Possession delivers a brilliant and thought-provoking novel about the 1960s and how the psychology, science, religion, ethics, and radicalism of the times affected ordinary lives.

Rich, acerbic, wise…. [Byatt] tackles nothing less than what it means to be human. -Vogue

Frederica Potter, a smart, spirited 33-year-old single mother, lucks into a job
hosting a groundbreaking television talk show based in London. Meanwhile, in her
native Yorkshire where her lover is involved in academic research, the university
is planning a prestigious conference on body and mind, and a group of students and
agitators is establishing an anti-university. And nearby a therapeutic community
is beginning to take the shape of a religious cult under the influence of its charismatic
religious leader.

A Whistling Woman portrays the antic, thrilling, and dangerous period of the late ‘60s as seen through the eyes of a woman whose life is forever changed by her times.