'Griselda de Reptonville did not know what love was until she
joined one of Mrs Hatch's famous house parties at Beams, and there
met Leander ...' The Late Breakfasters (1964) was the sole novel
Robert Aickman published in his lifetime. Its heroine Griselda is
invited to a grand country house where a political gathering is to
be addressed by the Prime Minister, followed by an All Party Dance.
Expecting little, Griselda instead meets the love of her life. But
their fledgling closeness is cruelly curtailed, and for Griselda
life then becomes a quest to recapture the wholeness and happiness
she felt all too briefly. 'Those, if any, who wish to know more
about me' - Aickman wrote in 1965 - 'should plunge beneath the
frivolous surface of The Late Breakfasters.' Opening as a comedy of
manners, its playful seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac
variation on the great Greek myth of thwarted love.
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