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Rosamond Lehmann
A novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.
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DUSTY ANSWER, Rosamond Lehmann’s first novel, was published to sensational acclaim in 1927 and became a landmark book of the inter-war period, shocking in its time, capturing the voice of…
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Nick Hornby
In this new anthology of his columns for The Believer, Nick Hornby delves into the latest escapades from his reading life. Spanning the magazine's Las Vegas era, these consistently hilarious…
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Harriet Baker
A joyful, rule-breaking experiment in biography, which celebrates 'country life' as a state of mind
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Judy Simons
This book locates Lehmann’s fictional achievement in the context of her times and in particular describes its positioning within the turbulent period between two world wars and the changing aesthetic…
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Selina Hastings
The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. Her first novel Dusty Answer , became wildly successful, launching her career…
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Ruth Siegel
Rosamond Lehmann, the British novelist, was born (1901) into the privileged upper-middle class life of Edwardian England but came of age during the disillusioned years between the two world wars…
* The Sequel to The Ballad and the Source, A Sea-Grape Tree was Rosamond Lehmann’s last novel.
The tale of the unlikely friendship between and an old woman and a young girl, this is one of Rosamond Lehmann’s finest novels
Grace Fairfax lives with her husband Tom in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life fails to match up to her dreams. Norah is equally…
A personal memoir of a great writer and a rare and important spiritual autobiography
* Published to coincide with the feature film THE HEART OF ME starring Helena Bonham Carter, Paul Bettany, Olivia Williams and Eleanor Bron.
First published in 1944 and now reissued as part of the VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS series, a novel which tells of a young girl who is drawn into the complications of…
* the sequel to AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ * a novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love
*A classic coming-of-age novel from one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century
This is a collection of short stories which reflect the themes of the author’s novels: portrayals of the adult world through the eyes of children and a fascination with other…
A classic coming-of-age novel from one of the best-loved writers of the twentieth century.
*One of Rosamond Lehmann’s most acclaimed novels * A widely acclaimed novel by one of Virago Modern Classic’s bestselling and best-loved classic novelists
Wendy Pollard
The author examines the effect recent developments in literary theory and movements from modernism to feminism have had on Lehmann’s literary reception. She also considers the interpolation of a damning…
Jean Cocteau
Cocteau’s novel Les Enfants Terribles, which was first published in 1929, holds an undisputed place among the classics of modern fiction.
