Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by
life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she
falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets -
Peter, an ambitious London doctor. On his advice she runs away from
home and goes to live with her sister Leonora, who escaped eight
years earlier. But there are surprises in store for conventional
Elsie as her sister has a rather bohemian lifestyle: not only does
Leo live in a houseboat on the Thames where she writes Westerns for
a living, she shares her boat - and her bed - with Helen. When
Peter pays a visit, turning his attention from one 'friendly young
lady' to the next, he disturbs the calm for each of them - with
results unforeseen by all . . . Mary Renault wrote this
delightfully provocative novel in 1943 partly in answer to the
despair characteristic of Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness.
The result is this witty and stylish social comedy.
General
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Virago Modern Classics |
| Release date: |
September 2014 |
| Authors: |
Mary Renault
|
| Introduction by: |
Sarah Dunant
|
| Dimensions: |
196 x 130 x 26mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
|
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-84408-952-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
| LSN: |
1-84408-952-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781844089529 |
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