The Tortoise and the Hare

by Elizabeth Jenkins, Hilary Mantel (Introduction)

Overview

INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL WITH A BEAUTIFUL COVER BY TEXTILE DESIGNER FLORENCE BROADHURST

'The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit' AMANDA CRAIG, GUARDIAN

'Wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it' JILLY COOPER

'A subtle and beautiful book . . . Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style' HILARY MANTEL, SUNDAY TIMES

Imogen, the beautiful wife of barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, tweedy, middle-aged and ungainly - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding - for in affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844087471
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	09/01/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Jenkins is the distinguished biographer (of Jane Austen, Lady Caroline Lamb and Elizabeth I). She was also a historian and novelist who was awarded the OBE in 1981. The Tortoise and the Hare, her sixth novel, was first published in 1953, and is generally considered her greatest work of fiction.

Editorial Reviews

As smooth and seductive as a bowl of cream—Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times

The perfection of its tone and prose is matched by an anguished wit—Amanda Craig, Guardian

My best book of almost all time is The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins . . . wonderfully sinister, so enchantingly written and so sad. Everyone should read it—Jilly Cooper

One of my favourite classics. Elegant and ironic, its continuing charm lies in its quirky and enigmatic love story which becomes more beguiling with each re-reading—Carmen Callil

Deliciously subtle . . . A lost world of tweeds and twin-sets . . . a classic novel of the fifties—Daily Mail

A subtle and beautiful book ... Very few authors combine her acute psychological insight with her grace and style. There is plenty of life in the modern novel, plenty of authors who will shock and amaze you - but who will put on the page a beautiful sentence, a sentence you will want to read twice?—Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times

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