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Her first novel At Mrs Lippincote's appeared in the same year (1945) as the actress Elizabeth Taylor was starring in National Velvet and began her ascent to stardom
'A marvellous compendium of recipes' declared Matthew Fort in the Guardian
This novel is in the Lytton Strachey tradition of furious anger with those who had gone before
Eugene Onegin and Aurora Leigh and more recently culminated in Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate (1986) and Sarah Crossan's One (2015) – a novel
She bent down and read again
Hostages to Fortune Category_Grey Books/Country Life Her first novel At MrsWITH A PUBLISHER'S NOTE 344pp ISBN 9781903155318 This autobiographical first novel follows the life of a young woman from 1915, when she has her first baby, until 1933. Catherine's husband is invalided out of the army and buys a doctor's practice in an Oxfordshire village, where the young couple bring up their three children and become deeply involved in the life of the village. It is a surprisingly hard life, full of disappointments and disillusions,
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