Cousin Rosamund

Cousin Rosamund unfolds the final chapters of the saga that began with The Fountain Overflows, Rebecca West's acknowleged masterpiece, and continued with This Real Night. As the glitter of the 1920s gives way to the Depression, Rose and Mary find themselves feted and successful pianists. But their happiness is diminished by their cousin's unfathomable marriage to a man they perceive as grotesque. Lacking her cousin Rosamund's intuitive understanding, Rose looks to the surrogate wisdom of Mr Morpurgo, while quiet days with Aunt Lily and the Darcys at their pub on the Thames offer respite from the tensions of foreign concert tours. With approaching middle age Rose gains in perspective. Yet the most exciting development still awaits her: the discovery of and delight in her own sexuality...

ISBN 0860688291   DEWEY edition DC21 ISBN13 9780860688297 (What's this?)   Pages 308 Publisher Little, Brown Book Group   Weight (grammes) 240 Imprint Virago Press Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Virago Modern Classics Publication date 31 Dec 1988   Height (mm) 200 Library of Congress PR   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 823.912   Academic level General

'A lastingly important English writer' MARGHANITA LASKI On THE FOUNTAIN OVERFLOWS: 'Rich, generous and consoling in spirit' HILARY SPURLING, OBSERVER 'Rebecca West - highly intelligent, highly gifted, vital, original, combative, formidable and kind - was a great woman' VICTORIA GLENDINNING

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