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The Weather In The Streets : Virago Modern Classics : Virago Modern Classics - Rosamond Lehmann

The Weather In The Streets : Virago Modern Classics

By: Rosamond Lehmann

Paperback | 8 May 2018 | Edition Number 1

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A novel of searing honesty and a passionate portrayal of forbidden love. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern Classics.

Introduced by Elizabeth Day.

A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now married, and Olivia's life changes to one of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms.

Years ahead of its time when first published in 1936, this subtle and powerful novel shocked it readers with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include:
  • Frost in May by Antonia White
  • The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
  • Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
  • The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
  • The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
  • Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
  • The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Heartburn by Nora Ephron
  • The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
  • Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
  • A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
Industry Reviews
The Weather in the Streets astounded women and men with its searing depiction of what it's like to fall in love . . . With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, The Weather in the Streets takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship - Sunday Telegraph

Lehmann is unbeatable on social nuance, both among the London bohemian set and Rollo's more conventional upper-class milieu. No one could be more attractive or caddish than Lehmann's Rollo, the married man who entrances our heroine. The ultimate tragic love story

She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original

The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions

A truly great book. It is beautifully written, shrewdly observed and deftly crafted, but the novel's real concern is what it means for a woman to live an authentic life

The best book she has written -- and with as good a chance for popular success as her first book, Dusty Answer - Kirkus Reviews

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