A Note In Music
$66.00
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2001
Summary
Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life of dreary routine fails to match up to her lush, wistful and dreamy internal life. Norah, her energetic and chaotic friend, is equally settled in her own marriage to an irritable university professor.
Then Hugh Miller and his sister Claire descend upon the quiet town. On all four, the hypnotic charm of these two visit…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780860682486 |
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| ISBN-10: | 086068248X |
| Author: | Rosamond Lehmann |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 363g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 132mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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She uses words with the enjoyment and mastery with which Renoir used to paint.
‘A novelist in the grand tradition… the first writer to filter her stories through a woman’s feelings and perceptions’ Anita Brookner ‘She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is only hers and is never forgotten … the inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that it’s hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘Well worth discovering’ OBSERVER ‘She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original’ Elizabeth Jane Howard
About The Author
Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born at Bourne End, Bucks. She wrote her first novel, DUSTY ANSWER aged 26 & established her reputation with A NOTE IN MUSIC. One of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century, she was created a CBE in 1982.
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