A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain’s best-loved authors
Sibyl Jardine, the former best friend of Rebecca Landon’s grandmother, has recently returned to the Priory, her home at the top of a hill. Rebecca is instantly drawn in by Sibyl’s magnetic personality and blunt, shocking manner. Decades earlier, Sibyl had left her husband Charles for another man...
Rosamond Lehmann (1901–1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The...
“I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann’s best and most permanent book.” —Raymond Mortimer
“An exciting adventure in fiction. Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story . . . Unforgettable.” —New York Herald Tribune
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