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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 200x132x26 mm, kaal: 416 g
  • Sari: Virago Modern Classics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1844087476
  • ISBN-13: 9781844087471
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 288 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 200x132x26 mm, kaal: 416 g
  • Sari: Virago Modern Classics
  • Ilmumisaeg: 04-Aug-2011
  • Kirjastus: Virago Press Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1844087476
  • ISBN-13: 9781844087471
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* This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. * 'One of my favourite classics' Carmen Callil

A love story with a difference, this exquisite novel subtly demonstrates that in affairs of the heart, the race is not necessarily to the swift—or the fair. It comes with a beautiful cover by Florence Broadhurst.

The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life could offer—a gracious riverside house in Berkshire, a beautiful young wife, Imogen, who is devoted to him, and their 11-year-old son, a replica of his father. Their nearest neighbor is Blanche Silcox, a plain, tweed-wearing woman of 50 who rides, shoots, fishes, and drives a Rolls Royce—in every way the opposite of the domestic, loving Imogen. Their world is conventional country life at its most idyllic: how can its gentle surfaces be disturbed?

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As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream -- Hilary Mantel * Sunday Times * The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit -- Amanda Craig * Guardian * My best book of almost all time is The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins . . . wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it -- Jilly Cooper One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading -- Carmen Callil Deliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties * Daily Mail * A subtle and beautiful book ... Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel, plenty of authors who will shock and amaze you - but who will put on the page a beautiful sentence, a sentence you will want to read twice? * Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times *

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* This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. * 'One of my favourite classics' Carmen Callil
Elizabeth Jenkins is the distinguished biographer (of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb and Elizabeth I). She was also a historian and novelist who was awarded the OBE in 1981. The Tortoise and the Hare, her sixth novel, was first published in 1953, and is generally considered her greatest work of fiction.