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Ladies of Lyndon

Margaret Kennedy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:7th Aug '14

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Insightful, witty and caustic, Margaret Kennedy shows how the inhabitants of a perfect English country house, and their old ideas of family and respectabilty, must change and adapt to the new pressures of a modern world

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark.Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark. Beautiful, young and carefully brought up, Agatha knows she is securing a perfect and luxurious future in marrying handsome John Clewer and becoming Mistress of Lyndon, and she soon becomes the perfect country house hostess. But when Gerald reappears and war in Europe disturbs the sheltered comfort of Lyndon forever, Agatha is once again haunted by the idea of a different life.

This is an extraordinary debut – assured, wide-ranging and thoughtful -- 4 stars * Independent on Sunday *
Her craftsmanship is superb -- Elizabeth Bowen * Tatler *
Kennedy was immensely popular in her heyday * Washington Post *
Miss Kennedy . . . finds herself well to the front among novelists, men or women, of today -- New York Times (1924)

ISBN: 9780099589761

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 20mm

Weight: 238g

336 pages