Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes – English PENI cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann’s best and most permanent book – Raymond MortimerAn exciting adventure in fiction. Unconventional in structure, in characterisation and development of story … Unforgettable * New York Herald Tribune *A psychological novel – keyed to the market of such books as Strange Woman and Leave Her To Heaven but immeasurably beyond them in subtlety and craftsmanship, in nuance and implication … An oddly haunting book, expertly handled * Kirkus Reviews *

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria’s funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.

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