Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann - ISBN: 9781844082940
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Childhood dreams, forbidden love, and unanswered questions haunt a young woman.

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    320 pages

  • Release Date

    3 May 2006

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Summary

Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness. Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover.

And next door also they slept unawares, while one of them broke from the circle and came alone to clasp a stranger.

Judith Earle, over-earnest and inexperienced, has always been a little in love with each of the four cousins who come to stay next door and, on her return from Cambridge, becomes madly in love with one of them - Roddy,…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844082940
ISBN-10:1844082946
Author:Rosamond Lehmann, Jonathan Coe
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:3 May 2006
Weight:221g
Dimensions:197mm x 129mm x 21mm
Series:Virago Modern Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers and daughters - MARGARET DRABBLE

The lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers - THE TIMES

It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read - Jonathan Coe

Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers and daughters - MARGARET DRABBLE

The lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers - THE TIMES

It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read - Jonathan Coe

About The Author

Rosamond Lehmann

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire and educated privately before going to Girton College, Cambridge, as a scholar. She was made a CBE in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century.

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