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I loved this story of a gently eccentric old lady, first published in 1931. Deborah, Lady Slane, is the widow of a former Prime Minister of Britain and Viceroy of India. Ignoring the attempts of her bossy children to dictate her last years, she installs herself in a house in Hampstead with only one servant, her faithful French maid, and makes friends with the house agent/owner, the builder, and a millionaire who fell in love with her in her beautiful youth, when she gave up her artistic ambition
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This book has all the earmarks of a Hogarth Press baby — the typeset; the huge margins; the imaginary hugs and kisses from Leonard & Virginia Woolf who would rather bestow affection on their printing press than on one another....
Ahem, but I digress.
Other Bloomsbury-style literary trademarks: flowers, lost opportunities, women giving up their entire identities, having lots of children, being in London. Meanwhile the men are on the periphery — distant, slightly irksome in their entitlement, and i ...more
Ahem, but I digress.
Other Bloomsbury-style literary trademarks: flowers, lost opportunities, women giving up their entire identities, having lots of children, being in London. Meanwhile the men are on the periphery — distant, slightly irksome in their entitlement, and i ...more
I hoped I would like this book and I did - the writing is wonderful, the story is both of its time and timeless, and the characters are lovingly drawn and realized. What I did not expect, however, was to unsettle my husband as I read the last chapter on an airplane, wiping stray tears as I raced to finish before we landed.
"There there," he joked as the plane taxied to the gate. "It's all over now."
"Hush," I sniffled, head down. "Two pages to go."
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Sackville-West's writing grabbed me from the ...more
"There there," he joked as the plane taxied to the gate. "It's all over now."
"Hush," I sniffled, head down. "Two pages to go."
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Sackville-West's writing grabbed me from the ...more
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