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Hester Lilly and Other Stories (Virago modern classics)

Hester Lilly and Other Stories (Virago modern classics)

by A . L . Barker (Introduction), ElizabethTaylor (Author)

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    Paperback 1995

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Synopsis

The title story shows a headmaster's elegant wife suffering torments of jealousy when his gawky young cousin comes to live with them. Why is it that her sophistication seems unable to compete with Hester's naivety? Elsewhere we see the mute agonies of a long marriage; the emotional deserts lurking in the English countryside; and old ruffian's sense of suffocation in a genteel community for the blind; or the freshness and oddity of children's perceptions. In this, her first collection of short stories, Elizabeth Taylor charts the territory she so triumphantly claimed as her own.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
Published: 02 Nov 1995
ISBN 10: 0860686124
ISBN 13: 9780860686125

Media Reviews
A wonderful novelist * Jilly Cooper *
How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart * Jonathan Keates *
An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant -- even the humdrum becomes astonishing * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Brilliantly amusing * Rosamond Lehmann *
Author Bio
Elizabeth Taylor was born in Reading in 1912. The daughter of an insurance inspector, she worked as a governess and, later, in a library. At the age of twenty-four she married and had a son and daughter. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn (Bucks). She died in 1975.