In 1901 the 'real' Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rugen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. From such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago around her encounters. There's the snobbish bishop's wife and her personable, handsome son, a dressmaker and, astonishingly, a long-lost cousin -- Charlotte -- who is trying to evade the pursuit of her husband, the maddeningly genial old professor.
| ISBN | 1844082768 | | Weight (grammes) | 350 | | ISBN13 | 9781844082766
(What's this?) | | Published in | London | | Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group | | Previous ISBN | 9781853812231 | | Imprint | Virago Press Ltd | | Height (mm) | 203 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 127 | | Publication date | 02 Feb 2006 | | Spine width (mm) | 18 | | Pages | 320 | | Academic level | General |
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'A mistress of irony' LISA ST AUBIN DE TERAN *'She was keenly aware of the powerlessness of an intelligent woman in a male-dominated world' KATE SAUNDERS *'She has a wild sense of comedy' PENELOPE MORTIMER
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