Ladies of Lyndon
$44.36
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2014
Summary
Insightful, witty, and caustic, Margaret Kennedy shows how the inhabitants of a perfect English country house, and their old ideas of family and respectability, must change and adapt to the new pressures of a modern world.
Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a short-lived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark. Beautiful, young, and carefully brought up, Agat…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099589761 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099589761 |
| Author: | Margaret Kennedy |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 20mm |
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Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday
This is an extraordinary debut – assured, wide-ranging and thoughtful – 4 stars * Independent on Sunday *Her craftsmanship is superb – Elizabeth Bowen * Tatler *Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *Miss Kennedy … finds herself well to the front among novelists, men or women, of today – New York Times (1924)
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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