Blaming

By: Elizabeth Taylor, Jonathan Keates (Introduction by)

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Paperback | 6 April 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Blaiming, Elizabeth Taylor's last novel, is a subtle novel about grief, guilt and compassion.

When Amy is suddenly left widowed and alone while on holiday in Istanbul, Martha, an American traveller, comforts her and accompanies her back to England. Upon their return, however, Amy is ungratefully reluctant to maintain their relationship, recognising that, under any other circumstances, the two women would not be friends. But guilt is a hard taskmaster, and Martha has away of getting under one's skin ...

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

A compassionate and devastating tale - Daily Mail

Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all - Anne Tyler

Elizabeth Taylor had the keenest eye and ear for the pain lurking behind a genteel demeanour - Paul Bailey, Guardian

How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time! - Elizabeth Jane Howard

How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart - Spectator

Taylor has the genius of making her characters understood, sometimes with an almost frightening clarity, perhaps because she is compassionate as well as relentless in her delineation of them - New York Times

She's a magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike - Independent

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