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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.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,
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