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In 1901 the 'real' Elizabeth holidayed on the Baltic island of Rugen with just her maid, a coachman, a carriage piled with luggage, and a woman friend. But from such unpromising beginnings Elizabeth weaves a captivating farrago round her encounters. There's the bishop's wife and her personable son, a dressmaker and, astonishingly, a long-lost cousin -- Charlotte -- who is trying to evade the pursuit of her professor husband. Meanwhile, Elizabeth's friend goes on knitting, and knitting, and knitting, in a travel story of great charm, wit and perception.
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A mistress of irony (Lisa St Aubin de Teran)
Delicious confection (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
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Delicious confection (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
* 'A triumph of comic invention' PENELOPE MORTIMER
* An astringent, self-deprecating human comedy
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- PublisherC.Chivers
- Publication date1972
- ISBN 10 0855947632
- ISBN 13 9780855947637
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages306
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