Dusty Answer: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (638 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497695198 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 332 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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But her world transforms forever when she meets a beautiful fellow student named Jennifer. There’s boring, faithful Martin, of the red cheeks and perennially scabby knees; beautiful, aristocratic Charlie, whom Judith secretly adores and who will die in the First World War; reckless Julian, who turns lying into an art; enigmatic Roddy, who visits only occasionally; and Mariella, whose marriage to her first cousin will end tragically, and who lives with the scandal of her mother running off with another man. A novel in many ways ahead of its time, Dusty Answer is about love: first love, love on the rebound, taboo love, the loss of love. Rosamond Lehmann’s first novel, now a classic of British literature, tells a luminous story of friendship, discovery, and forbidden love This debut novel, set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Judith E
"Very well written" according to Laura Canon. This is the kind of book that you can re-read. (I have several times.) It's really very sad that it and so many of Rosamond Lehmann's other books are out of print. The plot is about a young English girl who falls in love with the family next doorover several years, as she grows up, goes to Cambridge, goes out into the . Margaret Johnston said intense and impassioned. _Dusty Answer_ was Lehmann's first novel, published in 19"intense and impassioned" according to Margaret Johnston. _Dusty Answer_ was Lehmann's first novel, published in 1927 when she was just 26. Sales were slow and not much critical notice was taken of the book until Alfred Noyes gave it a glowing review in the Sunday Times, making _Dusty Answer_ a bestseller almost overnight. Its heroine, Judith Earle, is an intelligent, earnest. 7 when she was just "intense and impassioned" according to Margaret Johnston. _Dusty Answer_ was Lehmann's first novel, published in 1927 when she was just 26. Sales were slow and not much critical notice was taken of the book until Alfred Noyes gave it a glowing review in the Sunday Times, making _Dusty Answer_ a bestseller almost overnight. Its heroine, Judith Earle, is an intelligent, earnest. 6. Sales were slow and not much critical notice was taken of the book until Alfred Noyes gave it a glowing review in the Sunday Times, making _Dusty Answer_ a bestseller almost overnight. Its heroine, Judith Earle, is an intelligent, earnest. "Lush and Deep. You won't exit this quickly" according to Denise Berry. Incredible I had not discover this writer earlier. My only regret, my library does not carry her books. I will get them though. It's like reading Proust all over again, but with a different twist.
“Lehman is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original.” —Elizabeth Jane Howard “It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read.” —Jonathan Coe