INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety,great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful,fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance,escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different,that she is destined to become a feted authoress,owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .After reading The Lady Irania,publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success,in spite of - perhaps because of - its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book - an elderly lady,romanticising behind lace curtains A mustachioed rogue They were not expecting it to be the pale,serious teenage girl,sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul. 'Her stories remain with one,indelibly,as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience'Elizabeth Bowen'No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy'Rebecca Abrams,Spectator
Publisher: Little,Brown Book GroupISBN: 9781844083077Number of pages: 336Weight: 262 gDimensions: 196 x 129 x 17 mm
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Jane Austen,Elizabeth Taylor,Barbara Pym,Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters allOne of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth centuryI envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time. Theirs will be an unexpected pleasureHer stories remain with one,indelibly,as though they had been some turning point in one's own experienceElizabeth Taylor's tender,funny,exquisitely stylish novel keeps us on Angel's side,even though we are appalled by her narcissism and shocked into laughter by her self-delusion. She is a monster,but a delicious monster,and the novel poses,for writers,questions that don't date. That's why I'm so drawn to the book and have loved it for years; there's a bit of Angel in every writer,I fear.
Elizabeth Taylor
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One of Britain's greatest living novelists,Hilary Mantel published her first novel,Eight Months on Ghazzah Street,in 1988. She is a two-time winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for her novels,Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies,Mantel is currently working on a third part to the sequence,titled The Mirror and the Light. Her other novels include: Fludd,A Place of Greater Safety,A Change of Climate, Beyond Black and The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher as well as the autobiography Giving up the Ghost.
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