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Talland House - A Novel (Paperback)
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Talland House - A Novel (Paperback)
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List price R418
Loot Price R381
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You Save R37 (9%)
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Royal Academy, London 1919: Lily has put her student days in St.
Ives, Cornwall, behind her-a time when her substitute mother, Mrs.
Ramsay, seemingly disliked Lily's portrait of her and Louis Grier,
her tutor, never seduced her as she hoped he would. In the years
since, she's been a suffragette and a nurse in WWI, and now she's a
successful artist with a painting displayed at the Royal Academy.
Then Louis appears at the exhibition with the news that Mrs. Ramsay
has died under suspicious circumstances. Talking to Louis, Lily
realizes two things: 1) she must find out more about her beloved
Mrs. Ramsay's death (and her sometimes-violent husband, Mr.
Ramsay), and 2) She still loves Louis. Set between 1900 and 1919 in
picturesque Cornwall and war-blasted London, Talland House takes
Lily Briscoe from the pages of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse
and tells her story outside the confines of Woolf's novel-as a
student in 1900, as a young woman becoming a professional artist,
her loves and friendships, mourning her dead mother, and solving
the mystery of her friend Mrs. Ramsay's sudden death. Talland House
is both a story for our present time, exploring the tensions women
experience between their public careers and private loves, and a
story of a specific moment in our past-a time when women first
began to be truly independent.
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