Harp Lesson, The (Paperback Original) - Softcover

Emma Tennant

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9781904559160: Harp Lesson, The (Paperback Original)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1904559166 ISBN 13: 9781904559160

Publisher: MAIA BOOKS, 2005

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Set in the years around the French Revolution, Emma Tennant's atmospheric and poignant new novel explores the life of Pamela Sims, a woman who would become known in history as La Belle Pamela. At a young age Pamela is taken from her humble home in England to the French court, where she is brought up in a life of luxury as the illegitimate daughter of the beautiful Madame de Genlis and the Duc d'Orleans. Recounted through the voices of Pamela and her daughter, this novel vividly tells how her past shaped their extraordinary lives, capturing the atmosphere of eighteenth-century France and the complexity of a world where your origins create your identity.

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Review:

'A wonderfully readable narrative of seductive, visual
dreaminess'
-- Times Literary Supplement

'Eighteenth-century private life through the eyes of a mysterious beauty... riveting and very readable' -- Antonia Fraser

'The romance of Pamela's story is irrestistible... delicious family history.'
Lesley McDowell -- The Independent on Sunday 2 October 2005

‘Eighteenth-century private life through the eyes of a mysterious beauty . . . riveting and very readable’ -- Antonia Fraser

About the Author:

EMMA TENNANT became a full-time novelist with the apocalyptic 'The Time of the Crack' (1973), later reprinted as 'The Crack'. More than twenty books followed, including thrillers, comic fantasies, books for children and a series of unconventional and revisionary 'sequels' to classic texts, such as 'Tess' (1993); 'Pemberley' and 'An Unequal Marriage' (1993-4), and 'Emma in Love' (1996). Tennant was the founding editor of the innovative periodical 'Bananas' (1975); she has worked as general editor of 'In Verse' (1982) and as general editor of the Viking series 'Lives of Modern Women' (1985). She was awarded an Honorary D.Litt. from the University of Aberdeen in 1996 and lives in London.

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