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The Swan In The Evening

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6th June 2002

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Selected: Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780860682998

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English PEN
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply
Cyril Connolly
A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
Cyril Connolly
A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
Kirkus Reviews
While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior