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Title: THE TORTOISE AND THE HARE
By: Elizabeth Jenkins, Hilary Mantel
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1844084949
ISBN 13: 9781844084944
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Publisher: LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP
Pub. date: 7 February, 1983
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Description: * This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference.* 'One of my favourite classics' Carmen Callil
Synopsis: In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair.Imogen, the beautiful and much younger wife of distinguished barrister Evelyn Gresham, is facing the greatest challenge of her married life. Their neighbour Blanche Silcox, competent, middle-aged and ungainly - the very opposite of Imogen - seems to be vying for Evelyn's attention. And to Imogen's increasing disbelief, she may be succeeding.'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
Publication: UK
Imprint: Virago Press Ltd
Returns: Returnable
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