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The Weather In The Streets: Rosamond Lehmann; Frost In May: Antonia White; The Doves Of Venus: Olivia Manning
The Weather In The Streets: Rosamond Lehmann; Frost In May: Antonia White; The Doves Of Venus: Olivia Manning
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The Weather In The Streets: Rosamond Lehmann: The sequel to Invitation To The Waltz. Olivia Curtis is ten years older with a failed marriage behind her; thinner, sadder and apparently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls, and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published in 1936, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. Frost In May: Antonia White: The Convent of the Five Wounds, where Nanda Grey is sent when she is nine, is on the edge of London - but in 1908 it is a world unto itself. For the young girls receiving a Catholic education behind its walls, religion is a nationality and conformity an entire way of life. Quick-witted, resilient, and eager to please, she adapts to this cloistered world of intense, troubled atmosphere where passionate friendships are the only deviation. Nanda is thirteen when - catastrophically - she breaks the rules and pays a severe price for her transgression. First published in 1933. The Doves Of Venus: Olivia Manning: Eighteen year old Ellie leaves her provincial seaside home for London in search of independence and adventure. Finding a bed sit in Chelsea, a job painting 'antique' furniture and Quintin Bellot, the handsome but tired middle-aged dilettante who becomes her lover, the idealistic and impetuous Ellie stumbles into adult life. But Bellot, the seducer of one dove, is married to another - Petta, his once-beautiful wife, who is fighting age as fiercely as Ellie is determined to acquire the ageing experience. First published in 1955.
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Hardback omnibus volume; dust jacket has faint shelfwear; block has some foxing and age toning; tightly bound and clean within;, Modern LiteratureShare
