The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
Rumer Godden | The Greengage Summer | The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who beca
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Carol by Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith | Carol | At the age of 19, aspiring stage designer Therese Belivet wonders how fate brought her to this soul-sucking job, working at Frankenberg’s department s
The Nine Mile Circle by Pati Hill
Pati Hill | The Nine Mile Circle | Dreamy story of two teenage girls and an idyllic summer during which they constantly pretend to be man and wife, on a girlish, unerotic level.
The Flower Beneath The Foot by Ronald Firbank
Ronald Firbank | The Flower Beneath The Foot | Set on the eve of a royal wedding at the fantastical court of King Willie and Her Dreaminess the Queen of Pisuerga, this is an absurd and often melanc
Journal Of A Solitude by May Sarton
May Sarton | Journal Of A Solitude | In this, her bestselling journal, May Sarton writes with keen observation and emotional courage of both inner and outer worlds: a garden, the seasons,
A Saturday Life by Radclyffe Hall
Radclyffe Hall | A Saturday Life | ‘A Saturday Life’ is a novel about a girl named Sardonia who hops from one obsession to another. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 188
The Scientists by Eleazar Lipsky
Eleazar Lipsky | The Scientists | Its closest comparison is with Mitchell Wilson’s Live With Lightning which appeared some years ago, and again science, no longer an abstraction, come
The Red Room by Françoise Mallet-Joris
Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Red Room | The sequel to this Flemish writer’s earlier The Illusions (sp) (1952) continues the conflict between young Helene and Tamara, now her step-mother for
Pretty Little Dirty by Amanda Boyden
Amanda Boyden | Pretty Little Dirty | Lisa sees the life of her gorgeous best friend Celeste as just about perfect: she has a gigantic house, two older sisters to coach her through the haz
The Vine Of Glory by Mary Jackson King
Mary Jackson King | The Vine Of Glory | A repressed, inhibited, small-town girl, Lavinia, at the mercy of elderly tyrannical relatives, forms a close friendship with an African American man