Rosamond Lehmann

Dusty Answer

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Produktbeschreibung

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES 'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' JONATHAN COE 'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD 'Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness. Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover. And next door also they slept unawares, while one of them broke from the circle and came alone to clasp a stranger . . . ' A sensitive only child, Judith Earle has always been a little in love with the glamorous Fyfe boys who come to stay in the house next door. With the War over and Judith on the brink of going to Cambridge, the cousins arrive again - and she is caught once more in their spell. Falling hopelessly in love with Roddy, Judith's passionate entanglements - with each of the cousins, and with the charismatic Jennifer at Cambridge - will leave her forever changed. Dusty Answer traces with delicate nostalgia childhood friendships and the pangs of thwarted young love. Lehmann's first novel was published to sensational acclaim in 1927 and became a landmark book of the interwar period, capturing the voice of a new generation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 22mm
• ISBN-13: 9780349017952
• ISBN-10: 0349017956
• Artikelnr.: 74435439

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

The lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers The Times