The Tortoise and the Hare

Zusatztext A subtle and beautiful book ... Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel! plenty of authors who will shock and amaze you - but who will put on the page a beautiful sentence! a sentence you will want to read twice? Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth Jenkins is the distinguished biographer (of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb and Elizabeth I). She was also a historian and novelist who was awarded the OBE in 1981. The Tortoise and the Hare, her sixth novel, was first published in 1953, and is generally considered her greatest work of fiction. Klappentext n affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and ungainly - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn¿s attention. And to Imogen¿s increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding.'A subtle and beautiful book ¿ Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel, plenty of authors who will shock and amaze you - but who will put on the page a beautiful sentence, a sentence you will want to read twice?' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times Vorwort This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. 'One of my favourite classics' CARMEN CALLIL, VIRAGO FOUNDER Zusammenfassung This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. 'One of my favourite classics' CARMEN CALLIL, VIRAGO FOUNDER

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Jenkins, Elizabeths Jenkins
• Assisted by: Hilary Mantel (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2011
• EAN: 9781844087471
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-747-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 204 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Virago Press; Virago Modern Classics; VMC Designer Collection; VMC; Virago Modern Classics; VMC Designer Collection
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary