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Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's honesty and sense of humour prevent her from taking her role as seriously as her husband, that leader of men, might wish; for Roddy, merely love cannot suffice - he needs homage as well as admiration. And Julia, while she may be a most unsatisfactory officer's wife, is certainly no hypocrite.
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'Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife' -- Valerie Martin, Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction
'Sophisticated, sensitive and brilliantly amusing, with a kind of stripped, piercing feminine wit' -- Rosamond Lehmann
‘Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one’s own experience’ -- Elizabeth Bowen
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'Sophisticated, sensitive and brilliantly amusing, with a kind of stripped, piercing feminine wit' -- Rosamond Lehmann
‘Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one’s own experience’ -- Elizabeth Bowen
A wonderful novel from one of Britain's most acclaimed twentieth century novelists, At Mrs Lippincote's explores the hypocrisies and evasions inherent in marriage
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- PublisherViking Pr
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0140162267
- ISBN 13 9780140162264
- BindingPaperback
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