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Lehmann, Rosamond

 
9780349017976: The Ballad and the Source
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0349017972 ISBN 13 : 9780349017976
Editeur : Virago, 2026

Synopsis

The tale of the unlikely friendship between and an old woman and a young girl. One of Rosamond Lehmann's finest novels.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Experience had signed her face with a secret, a promise whose meaning people would still watch, still desire to explore and to possess.

When Sibyl Jardine moves into The Priory, the beautiful house on a primrose-covered hill, ten-year-old Rebecca is spellbound by the glamorous and enigmatic old woman. Drawn into the intricate web of Mrs Jardine's life - her second husband, her errant daughter, her estranged grandchildren - Rebecca discovers that the complex and scandalous history of the Jardine family is linked to her own.

The tale of the unlikely friendship between an old woman and a young girl, and of a turbulent life seen through the eyes of innocence, this is one of Rosamond Lehmann's finest novels.

'Probably my favourite of her novels. She has every quality that a great writer should possess . . . above all, an astonishing, unembarrassed emotionality' JOANTHAN COE

'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters, of suffering' MARGARET DRABBLE

'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' Elizabeth Jane Howard

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Éditeur
Virago
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0349017972
ISBN 13 
9780349017976
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
400
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Personne responsable
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