E-raamat: Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

First published in 1978, and widely considered to be the sequel to her masterpiece By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, this remarkable book further established Smarts reputation as a brave and inspirational writer.



A still beautiful woman, 31 years old with four children by a faithless lover, cannot break the habit of expectation. She must learn to submit to the cold, bare, unglamorous tenets of reality the untenable position of love. She must learn to deflect Grand Passion into an acceptance of the rogues and rascals with their radiant faces, who buy her a bitter with borrowed cash. Out of a passionate youth, through pain and harsh revelation, she has attained a maturity a certain knowledge that the cost of rapture is high and that there is no looking back.



Hers is a voice that distils a womans determination for survival a voice that rises up from everyday life, from the bus queue, the Underground, the pub and in Elizabeth Smarts hand is wrought into something magnificent.