The Tortoise And The Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

The Tortoise And The Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins

This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. 'One of my favourite classics' CARMEN CALLIL, VIRAGO FOUNDER

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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9781844087471
ISBN 10	1844087476
Title	The Tortoise And The Hare
Author	Elizabeth Jenkins
Series	Vmc
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2011-08-04
Number of pages	288
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