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Penelope Fitzgerald's final masterpiece. Set in Germany at the very end of the eighteenth century, The Blue Flower is the story of the brilliant Fritz von Hardenberg, a graduate of the Universities of Jena, Leipzig and Wittenberg, learned in Dialectics and Mathematics, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher Novalis.

Set in the 18th century, this tells the story of the brief love affair between the young and brilliant Fritz von Hardenburg, who later became the great romantic poet and philosopher, Novalis, and 12-year-old, empty-headed Sophie von Kuhn.