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One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train on the Italian riviera, en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia, who is going to England for the education she has always wanted. An odd, almost meaningless incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a seemingly abrupt and casual decision that changes the course of both their lives. Yet perhaps a pattern had already been set by Constanza's mother, the American heiress Anna, who years before had left home for a strange marriage with an Italian prince...
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Sybille Bedford is the most sensual of writers. No one writes as she does about the smells and colours of the Mediterranean, about the pleasure of food and wine. --Victoria Glendinning
An excellent stylist and a splendid narrator . . . and this is a very clever work. --New Yorker
A study of the rich . . . an examination of love . . . and a statement of what Henry James either did not or would not know about the darker side of the portrait of the lady. Bedford's mind is radiant. Her alarming economy of style burns. --V. S. Pritchett
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An excellent stylist and a splendid narrator . . . and this is a very clever work. --New Yorker
A study of the rich . . . an examination of love . . . and a statement of what Henry James either did not or would not know about the darker side of the portrait of the lady. Bedford's mind is radiant. Her alarming economy of style burns. --V. S. Pritchett
One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter, who is going to England. An odd incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a decision that changes the course of both their lives.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0141181982
- ISBN 13 9780141181981
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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