About this title: Hattie, the narrator of this brilliant, elliptical novel, is 'a stranger by birth' and not really at home anywhere, least of all among her family. It is her family who, when she was a girl, made her feel awkward in every walk of life - even at the piano, for which she had a real talent - and who reconciled her, long before her time, to the life of a shabby-genteel West London spinster. She has understood very little of her own existence, a life seen, literally and metaphorically, through a squint, and remembers, with difficulty and confusion, her strange, aborted first love to a much older ...
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Edition: Cheap ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: John Murray, London
Date Published: 1940
Description: VG-hardback in Fair dustjacket. Dustjacket protected in removable clear film. Owner's name on ffep; spine a little faded; dust jacket rather worn & dirty; with loss to spine. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Persephone London
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9781903155080ISBN:1903155088
Description: Fine. This brilliant publisher has discovered and made available to us a great many forgotten writers, and presented them in a wonderful house style of design. This one is no exception. Originally issued in 1934, this new edition has a unique Afterword by Terence Handley Macmath. read more
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