'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers and daughters' MARGARET DRABBLE 'The lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES 'It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' Jonathan Coe

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.