Tortoise And The Hare

Jenkins, Elizabeth
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349019642
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
230 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Jenkins, Elizabeth
Introduksjon ved
Mantel, Hilary

Om bidragsyterne

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.

Tortoise And The Hare

Jenkins, Elizabeth
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
Jenkins, Elizabeth
Heftet / 2025 / Engelsk
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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 <i>The Tortoise and the Hare</i> by Elizabeth Jenkins . . . <b>wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad</b>. Everyone should read it

- Jilly Cooper,

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One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic,<b> its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story </b>which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading

- Carmen Callil,

Deliciously subtle . . . <b>A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets </b>. . . a classic novel of the fifties

Daily Mail

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

As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream

Hilary Mantel

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

The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony, The Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair.INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER 'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL
Les mer
This exquisite novel describes a love triangle with a twist. A favourite novel of Carmen Callil, Virago founder, now reissued as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spine design.
The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony, The Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair. INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER 'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL, SUNDAY TIMES
Les mer
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream - Sunday TimesMy 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 itOne 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-readingDeliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties - Daily MailThe perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit - Guardian
Les mer

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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 <i>The Tortoise and the Hare</i> by Elizabeth Jenkins . . . <b>wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad</b>. Everyone should read it

- Jilly Cooper,

Se alle

One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic,<b> its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story </b>which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading

- Carmen Callil,

Deliciously subtle . . . <b>A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets </b>. . . a classic novel of the fifties

Daily Mail

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

As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream

Hilary Mantel

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

The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony, The Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair.INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER 'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL
Les mer
This exquisite novel describes a love triangle with a twist. A favourite novel of Carmen Callil, Virago founder, now reissued as part of the Virago Modern Classics Green Spine design.
The re-dipping of dishes was a small matter, but the emotional texture of married life is made up of small matters. This one had become invested with a fatal quality.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and tweedy - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding. With exquisite elegance and irony, The Tortoise and the Hare reveals that in affairs of the heart, the race is not always won by the swift - or the fair. INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL 'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN 'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER 'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL, SUNDAY TIMES
Les mer
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream - Sunday TimesMy 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 itOne 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-readingDeliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties - Daily MailThe perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit - Guardian
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780349019642
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Vendor
Virago Press Ltd
Vekt
230 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
288

Forfatter
Jenkins, Elizabeth
Introduksjon ved
Mantel, Hilary

Om bidragsyterne

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.

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