The Holiday Friend, 9781473679870
Paperback
A family holiday, a dangerous obsession, and a sinister friendship.

The Holiday Friend

the modern classic

  • Paperback

    272 pages

  • Release Date

    8 October 2018

Summary

The Holiday Friend: A Novel of Seduction and Suspicion

‘A powerful tragedy’ 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 story of seduction and marriage, perfect for fans of Elizabeth Jane Howard and Barbara Pym.

Gavin and Hannah Eastwood are a happy couple, holidaying with their overprotected eleven-year…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473679870
ISBN-10:1473679877
Author:Pamela Hansford Johnson
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:272
Release Date:8 October 2018
Weight:200g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 24mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Witty, satirical and deftly malicious

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

Remarkable - Guardian

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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