Angel : A Virago Modern Classic Paperback / softback
by Elizabeth Taylor
Part of the Virago Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah WatersWriting stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life.
She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . . After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of - perhaps because of - its overblown style.
But they are curious as to who could have written such a book - an elderly lady, romanticising behind lace curtains?
A mustachioed rogue? They were not expecting it to be the pale, serious teenage girl, sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul. *'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' Elizabeth Bowen 'No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy' Rebecca Abrams, Spectator
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
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- ISBN:9781844083077
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In Stock - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:06/04/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9781844083077
