The Weather In The Streets (Virago Modern Classic)

Author(s): Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)

Classics

'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' Elizabeth Day


A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now married, and Olivia's life changes to one of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms.


Years ahead of its time when first published in 1936, this subtle and powerful novel shocked it readers with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love.


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Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame


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A sequel to Invitation to the Waltz, Olivia runs into a man who beguiled her as a teenager and thus they begin an affair. Told in three sections, Lehmann is compassionate towards her main characters and details the 1930s exquisitely.

Elisa, Book Grocer

 

The Weather in the Streets astounded women and men with its searing depiction of what it's like to fall in love . . . With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship -- Esther Freud * Sunday Telegraph * 'A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life' -- Elizabeth Day The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions * Anita Brookner * She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original * Elizabeth Jane Howard * Lehmann is unbeatable on social nuance, both among the London bohemian set and Rollo's more conventional upper-class milieu. No one could be more attractive or caddish than Lehmann's Rollo, the married man who entrances our heroine. The ultimate tragic love story -- Alexandra Shulman

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire and educated privately before going to Girton College, Cambridge, as a scholar. She was made a CBE in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century.

General Fields

  • : 9780349010366
  • : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
  • : Virago Press
  • : 0.312
  • : June 2015
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : May 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Rosamond Lehmann; Carmen Callil (Introduction by); Elizabeth Day (Introduction by)
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 823.9/12
  • : 384