The Weather In The Streets, 9781844083060
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the sequel to AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ * a novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    3 May 2006

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Summary

Taking up where AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ left off, THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844083060
ISBN-10:1844083063
Series:Virago Modern Classics
Author:Rosamond Lehmann, Elizabeth Day, Carmen Callil
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:3 May 2006
Weight:268g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

’…the first writer to filter her stories through a woman’s feelings & perceptions’ - Anita Brookner ‘She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original’ - Elizabeth Jane Howard

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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