The Tortoise And The Hare

Deliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties>

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Jenkins
• Assisted by: Hilary Mantel (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.01.2025
• EAN: 9780349019642
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01964-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 196 mm x 20 mm
• Series: VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Fiction: general and literary