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Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll.
Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving.
A web of love and desire entangles these three; but in such a treacherous game, someone must finally lose out.
Elizabeth Jane Howard reveals with elegant prose and devastating accuracy a situation both shattering and destructive . . .
Praise for Elizabeth Jane Howard
'She is one of those novelists who shows, through her work, what the novel is for . . . She helps us to do the necessary thing - open our eyes and our hearts' Hilary Mantel
'Her navigation of the web of human relations [is] seemingly effortless' Sunday Telegraph
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Anne and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage, a lovely home and are content, until Arabella comes to stay one summer. She is rich, rootless and amoral, and as the web of desire and love entangles all three, they realise someone will lose out. From the author of THE LONG VIEW and AFTER JULIUS. Originally published in 1972. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR004422402
Book Description Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Light toning to page ends. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing. Seller Inventory # 9999-9992601234
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The jacket is a bit shelf rubbed.Internally clean and tightly bound.EK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Seller Inventory # ll96
Book Description Hardback. Condition: GOOD. EX LIBRARY. Seller Inventory # 4579
Book Description Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Repint. Rich, amoral and angelically beautiful, Arabella Dawick wreaks the kind of casual violence to other people's lives of which only those who have been loved too much or too little are capable. Elizabeth Jane Howard brilliantly evokes mood, object, scene, personality with consummate skill and delicacy, unfolding her story with elegance and ompassion. Previous owners name to inside cover. Very slight shelf wear and tiny tear to edge of D/J. Corner flaps of inside D/J. clipped. Seller Inventory # 023231
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Good. The author's 7th book. A 1st edition hardback with its dustjacket, in good condition-the dustjacket is a little scuffed. (288 pages). Seller Inventory # 597
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard. 1972. Uncorrected Proof. Top and bottom of spine bumped badly, and small blemish to front cover. Clean throughout. Bookseller Inventory #HFB000346. Seller Inventory # 000346
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 288pp, bound in maroon cloth with dustwrapper, SIGNED by author on front endpaper; Octavo; 288 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 75631
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine in a Fine, unclipped DJ.lovely copy. Seller Inventory # 004831
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A fine 1st impression in a near fine dustwrapper. Signed by the Author on the title page. Light burgundy topstain to text block as issued. Very slight wear to corners of dustwrapper. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 007361