The Weather in The Streets

'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now married, and Olivia's life changes to one of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published in 1936, this subtle and powerful novel shocked it readers with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. * Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley ; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

About the author

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.

Product details

• Authors: Rosamond Lehmann
• Assisted by: Carmen Callil (Introduction), Callil Carmen (Introduction), Elizabeth Day (Introduction), Day Elizabeth (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780349010366
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01036-6
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 136 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; 40th Anniversary Edition; Virago modern classics; 40th Anniversary Edition
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / General, FICTION / Romance / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary