The Constant Nymph (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Kennedy, Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099589745 ISBN 13: 9780099589747

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2014

Synopsis

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.

When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. "Unbalanced, untaught, and fatally warm-hearted," the fourteen-year-old Tessa has fallen in love with Lewis Dodd, a gifted composer like her father. Confidently, she awaits maturity (and Lewis). For even his marriage to Tessa's beautiful cousin Florence cannot shatter the loving bond between Lewis and his constant nymph.

About the Author:

Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) was born in London, the eldest of four children and educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and Oxford. THE CONSTANT NYMPH was first published in 1924.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0099589745
• ISBN 13: 9780099589747
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384