''A Whistling Woman'' is a 2002 novel by A. S. Byatt. The novel was published by Chatto & Windus in 2002. The novel is the final in a sequence of four books, preceded by '' The Virgin in the Garden'' (1978), '' Still Life'' (1985), and '' Babel Tower'' (1996). Jonathan Walker, in a paper published by ''

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'', referred to the series of books as the "Frederica quartet". Byatt herself expressed a preference for ''The Virgin in the Garden'' quartet when speaking about it ("It isn't Frederica's book--though she's the sort of person who would muscle in and try to take it!") and noted her publisher's intention to produce a boxed set, simply titled ''The Quartet''. Byatt has said the novel is "about utopianism...and a dangerous sort of mystical romanticism". ''A Whistling Woman'' is half dedicated to

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