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Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life of dreary routine fails to match up to her lush, wistful and dreamy internal life. Norah, her energetic and chaotic... Read Full Overview

1930. Lehmann's life was as romantic and harrowing as that of any of her fictional heroines. Her dramatic life, work and relationships crisscrossed the cultural, literary and political landscape of England in that era. A Note in Music begins: She was dressing for dinner. Next... Read Full Overview

The seductive new stranger in town becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century "There is nothing here: nothing in your past, nothing in your future." Thirty-four-year-old... Read Full Overview