An Impossible Marriage by Pamela Hansford Johnson - ISBN: 9781473679801
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Young woman seeks escape, finds a marriage perhaps too impossible.

An Impossible Marriage

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    9 October 2018

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Summary

‘As her work reappears, another missing jigsaw piece is replaced’ - Independent

Described by the New York Times upon her death as ‘one of Britain’s best-known novelists’, plunge yourself into the wry world of Pamela Hansford Johnson in this coming-of-marriageable-age story, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard and Barbara Pym.

It’s between the wars, and Christine - Christie, to her friends - is tired of London, her job in a travel agency, her friends, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473679801
ISBN-10:147367980X
Author:Pamela Hansford Johnson
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:9 October 2018
Weight:240g
Dimensions:194mm x 128mm x 28mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

As her work reappears, another missing jigsaw piece is replaced

As her work reappears, another missing jigsaw piece is replaced - Independent

Witty, satirical and deftly malicious

Sharply observed, artfully constructed and always enlivened by the freshness of an imagery that derives from [Johnson’s] poetic beginnings - TLS

A story so vivid it might be the memoir of a real person - Britannia and Eve

A remarkable craftswoman

Miss Johnson is one of the most accomplished of the English women writers - Kirkus

Hansford Johnson at her wittiest is Waugh mingled with Malcolm Bradbury

A writer whose memory fully deserves to be kept alive

About The Author

Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912. As a novelist, she gained recognition with her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She then went on to write 26 more novels throughout her life, ranging in genre from romantic and high comedy to tragedy, and the psychological study of cruelty, with themes centred around the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. She was also a well-respected critic, a leading Proustian scholar, an essayist, a playwright, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a CBE. She died in 1981.

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