The Last Resort
The Modern Classic
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 October 2018
Summary
‘A very cool and intelligent writer’ - TLS
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.
Christine Hall, a mother in her late thirties, is on holiday on the south coast of England when she bumps into an old friend: Celia Baird, staying with her parents at the Mor…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473679948 |
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| ISBN-10: | 147367994X |
| Author: | Pamela Hansford Johnson |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Hodder Paperback |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 200mm x 132mm x 26mm |
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Critics Review
As her work reappears, another missing jigsaw piece is replaced
Very funny - Independent
Remarkable - GuardianWitty, satirical and deftly maliciousMiss Johnson is one of the most accomplished English women writers - KirkusA writer whose memory fully deserves to be kept aliveAbout 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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