Crewe Train - Softcover

Macaulay, Rose, Dame

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088184201X ISBN 13: 9780881842012

Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, 1986

Synopsis

When Denham Dobie's father suddenly dies, she moves to London and becomes caught up in the busy social life of her relatives

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From the Publisher

On the death of her father, a retired clergyman, Denham Dobie is forced to leave her wild and carefree life in Spain and is thrust into the gossiping highbrow circle of her well-meaning relatives in London. Thrown into a world of publishers and writers, this awkward young woman ‹ a tomboy and rebel at heart ‹ sees their society for the self-absorbed, self-satisfied world it is and offers a devastating, and very funny, social commentary within her own moving story. A bitingly funny, elegantly written comedy of manners from the incomparable Rose Macaulay.

About the Author

Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. She studied Modern History at Somerville College, Oxford and wrote her first novel, Abbots Verney in 1906. She was introduced to the London literary scene by her childhood friend Rupert Brooke, and her friends included Ivy Compton-Burnett, Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Rosamond Lehmann and Elizabeth Bowen. Macaulay became celebrated writer who published over thirty works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry in her lifetime, including Crewe Train and The World My Wilderness. She won the James Tait Black Memorial prize for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond (1956) and was awarded the DBE in 1957.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 088184201X
• ISBN 13: 9780881842012
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 319