The Tortoise And The Hare
The Tortoise And The Hare
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Summary
* This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference as it subtly demonstrates that in affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily to the swift - or the fair.
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The Tortoise And The Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, fifty-two, is a KC of considerable distinction. He has everything life could offer - a gracious riverside house in Berkshire, a beautiful grey-eyed wife Imogen, devoted to him and to their eleven-year-old son, a replica of his father. Their nearest neighbour is Blanche Silcox, a plain, tweed-wearing woman of fifty who rides, shoots, fishes, and drives a Rolls Royce - in every way the opposite of the domestic, loving Imogen. Their world is conventional country life at its most idyllic: how can its gentle surfaces be disturbed?
My best book of almost all time is THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE by Elizabeth Jenkins.. wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it * Jilly Cooper *
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream * Hilary Mantel *
One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading * Carmen Callil *
Deliciously subtle...A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets...a classic novel of the fifties * DAILY MAIL *
As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream * Hilary Mantel *
One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading * Carmen Callil *
Deliciously subtle...A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets...a classic novel of the fifties * DAILY MAIL *
Elizabeth Jenkins, the distinguished biographer (of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb and Elizabeth I), historian and novelist, lives in Hampstead, London; she was awarded the OBE in 1981. THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE, her sixth novel, was first published in 1953, and is generally considered her greatest work of fiction.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780860682721 |
| ISBN 10 | 0860682722 |
| Title | The Tortoise And The Hare |
| Author | Elizabeth Jenkins |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1998-07-02 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |