Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager-nomads on the international airlines. Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmannuel's secretary. This prim and utterly delightful stomach. One by one the leopards change their spots. 'The characterisation is the ...
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Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager-nomads on the international airlines. Then Alberta, straight from an English vicarage and the pages of Jane Austen, is appointed as Emmannuel's secretary. This prim and utterly delightful stomach. One by one the leopards change their spots. 'The characterisation is the triumph of this book. Miss Howard has a exquisite sense of place. This is not a "woman's book"; it belongs to all of us. Happy us' John Davenport, Observer
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Reprint, 8vo, 412pp, base of spine lightly scuffed o/w VG Copy in VG DJ missing the bottom eighth of an inch or so commensurate with scuff.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Reprint. Bookseller ticket (Foyles) on front pastedown, light spotting on topstain, near fine in a price-clipped, near fine dust jacket with modest foxing, and a publisher's price sticker on the front flap. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "With kind regards to Michael Curtis. Elizabeth Jane Howard."
