At Mrs Lippincote's

By: Elizabeth Taylor

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Paperback | 24 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Elizabeth Taylor's first novel, published in 1945, hailed a brilliant new voice in twentieth-century literature.

Mrs Lippincote's house, with its mahogany furniture and yellowing photographs, stands as a reminder of all the certainties that have vanished with the advent of war. Temporarily, this is home for Julia, who has joined her husband Roddy at the behest of the RAF. Although she can accept the pomposities of service life, Julia's honesty and sense of humour prevent her from taking her role as seriously as her husband, that leader of men, might wish; for Roddy, merely love cannot suffice - he needs homage as well as admiration. And Julia, while she may be a most unsatisfactory officer's wife, is certainly no hypocrite.

About the Author

Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, the New Yorker and Harper's Bazaar.

Industry Reviews

Witty, hilarious, astringent, devastating - her impeccable style can do anything and with such seemingly effortless ease

Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth

Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktail - the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life

Her best novels - At Mrs. Lippincote's (1945), A View of the Harbour (1947), A Game of Hide and Seek (1951) - are, in spite of their prim titles, funny, savage and full of loneliness and suppressed emotion. For her characters, as for their author, propriety is a survival mechanism, a way of keeping the show on the road - Guardian

Taylor is one of the hidden treasures of the English novel - Daily Telegraph

Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife

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