'A novel of love,war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time'Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I,taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House,upstanding Victorian matriarch,has packed her errant husband off to Paris with his mistress Minna. But when tragedy throws her life off balance Sophia goes to seek him out,and instead finds herself intensely attracted to the charismatic,bohemian Minna,who leads her on a wild,chaotic adventure through a city in the throes of revolution.'One of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This is my favourite of her novels'Sarah Waters'Every page contains something brilliant,arresting or amusing,and one comes away from it staggered'Claire Harman
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241454848Number of pages: 320Weight: 236 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
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Sylvia Townsend Warner has to be one of the great under-read British novelists of the twentieth century. This,my favourite of her novels,has a disaffected Victorian wife falling for her husband's charismatic mistress,and discovering revolutionary politics along the wayIt's a wildly leftist novel of love,war and death; Townsend Warner chucks the lot into her simmering story,but it remains skilfully crafted. Brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its timeWith insight,malice,exquisiteness; in its wit,its instinct for style,its drawing-room urbanities,it will suggest at one time or another the work of a Rebecca West,a Virginia Woolf,an Elinor Wylie
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