Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education is a 1989 semi-autobiographical novel by Sybille Bedford. It shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. 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.

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