The Tortoise And The Hare - Couverture souple

Jenkins, Elizabeth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349019649 ISBN 13 : 9780349019642

Editeur : Virago, 2025

Synopsis

This exquisite novel describes a love triangle with a twist. A favourite novel of Carmen Callil, Virago founder, now reissued as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spine design.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.


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 tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony, The Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair.


INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL

'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN

'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER

'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL, SUNDAY TIMES

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2025
• ISBN 10: 0349019649
• ISBN 13: 9780349019642
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible