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Mr Skeffington : A Virago Modern Classic, Paperback / softback Book

Mr Skeffington : A Virago Modern Classic Paperback / softback

Part of the Virago Modern Classics series

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Beauty; beauty. What was the good of beauty, once it was over? It left nothing behind it but acid regrets, and no heart at all to start fresh.'Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts for many years, is surprised to find herself thinking of him often.

While attempting to understand this invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate actions, all those other men whose hearts she broke.

But their lives have irrevocably changed and Fanny is no longer the exquisite beauty with whom they were all once enchanted.

If she is to survive, Fanny discovers, she must confront a greatly altered perception of her self. With the delicate piquancy for which she is renowned, Elizabeth von Arnim here reveals the complexities involved in the process of ageing and in re-evaluating self-worth.

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