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Description for The Rising Tide
Paperback. A riotous, enthralling portrait of leisured life at the family home of Garonlea in the early years of the century Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
BY THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
INTRODUCED BY POLLY DEVLIN
'Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit' IRISH TIMES
'She was . . . marvellous' GUARDIAN
'A writer of genius' WALL STREET JOURNAL
One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .
Lady Charlotte French-McGrath has successfully ruled over her family with a rod of iron until the arrival of Cynthia: beautiful, young, talented, selfish - and engaged to her son Desmond.
When Cynthia enters ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Virago Modern Classics
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844083268
SKU
KJE0000872
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Molly Keane
Molly Keane (1904-1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters. She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, ... Read more
Reviews for The Rising Tide
She was . . . marvellous
Guardian
Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape
Evening Standard
Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit
Irish Times
She is akin to Jane Austen ... Read more
Guardian
Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape
Evening Standard
Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit
Irish Times
She is akin to Jane Austen ... Read more