Dreaming of Dead People

In the 'middle of life' Lavinia reviews her frustrations, her solitariness, the grief and the rapture, her seeming companions in a pageant presided over, as it were, by the masks of Owl, for winter, and Cuckoo, for erotic love. Dreaming of Dead People, first published in the UK in the 1970s, remains as surprising, frank, mordantly funny and raw as ever.

About the author

Rosalind Belben was born and brought up in Dorset and, after a nomadic life, has again made it her home. New editions of Is Beauty Good and Choosing Spectacles are also forthcoming from And Other Stories. Among her other novels are The Limit, Hound Music and Our Horses in Egypt, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction in 2007.

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 to Jewish parents of Italo-Russian, Romano-Levantine extraction. He is the author of some twenty novels, ten books of criticism, a memoir of his mother, the poet Sacha Rabinovitch, and numerous stage and radio plays.

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind Belben, Belben Rosalind
• Assisted by: Gabriel Josipovici (Introduction)
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 05.08.2025
• EAN: 9781916751316
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-31-6
• No. of pages: 144
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, FICTION / Women, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Narrative theme: Interior life, The countryside, country life: general interest, Fiction: general and literary, Psychology: sexual behaviour, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary