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A Wreath of Roses (Virago Modern Classics)

A Wreath of Roses (Virago Modern Classics)

by Elizabeth Taylor (Author), Helen Dunmore (Introduction)

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    Paperback 1994

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    Paperback 1984

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Synopsis

Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: Reprint
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 06 Jan 1994
ISBN 10: 1853816841
ISBN 13: 9781853816840

Media Reviews
Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel . . . She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths . . . Extremely beguiling. Taylor makes the living moment present, touchable, disturbing, enchanting * Helen Dunmore *
Taylor is a fearsome writer, ruthless in her examination of solitude, and a sparkling chronicler of ordinary lives * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Taylor's marvellous, dark novel of 1949 ... The writing is so perfectly pitched that one almost resents becoming aware of the novel's elegant structure unfolding itself towards completion * Guardian *
Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth. As a reader, I have found huge pleasure in returning to Taylor's novels and short stories many times over. As a writer I've returned to her too - in awe of her achievements, and trying to work out how she does it * Sarah Waters *
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.