Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy - ISBN: 9780099589785
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Comfortable marriage unravels amidst dissatisfaction, gossip, and shattered dreams.

Together and Apart

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    400 pages

  • Release Date

    3 November 2014

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Summary

A comfortable marriage is pulled apart by vague dissatisfaction, romantic fancies, gossip and petty argument - a masterfully told modern tragedy by the author of The Constant Nymph.

Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to Alec, and a neat, civilised divorce seems th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780099589785
ISBN-10:0099589788
Author:Margaret Kennedy
Publisher:Vintage Publishing
Imprint:Vintage Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:400
Release Date:3 November 2014
Weight:323g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 25mm
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Critics Review

She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed

Together and Apart is a quietly accomplished novel that catches the rustle of an era not so very far from our own * Washington Post *She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed – Anita BrooknerThe intricate counterpoint between the life demanded by their peers and their own desires is exquisitely diagrammed * Washington Post *Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *

About The Author

Margaret Kennedy

Margaret Kennedy was born in London in 1896 and read History at Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 (alongside Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain) where she began writing. In 1924, Kennedy’s second novel The Constant Nymph became a worldwide bestseller which she adapted into a hit West End play starring Noel Coward (three different star-studded film versions followed). Described as ‘superb’ by Elizabeth Bowen, Kennedy wrote fifteen further prize-winning novels including The Feast in 1950, as well as literary criticism and a biography of Jane Austen. She died in 1967.

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