A Love Match

Having had a brief life, this novel had fallen foul of a libel threat, and was for a long time very scarce.

About the author

Barbara Skelton (1916-1996) was a writer and literary femme fatale. She had many lovers and three husbands. She wrote two novels, a volume of short stories and two brilliant autobiographies. Her entire oeuvre is being reissued in Faber Finds.

In addition to her own fiction, Barbara Skelton was also the original for Pamela Flitton in Anthony Powell's Dance to the Music of Time sequence.

Summary

It had a brief life, falling foul of a libel threat, and for a long time was very scarce. Beneath its surface blacknesses of mood and double-dealing, what makes this book more diverting than painful is the amused unblinking eye the author brings to bear on an unusually wide range of characters.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Skelton, Skelton Barbara
• Assisted by: Barbar Skelton (Editor), Barbara Skelton (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9780571248308
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24830-8
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 126 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Faber Finds, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary