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The Swan In The Evening

Fragments of an Inner Life
  • Author
    • Rosamond Lehmann
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  • Published: Jun 06 2002
  • Pages: 176
  • 131 x 200mm
  • ISBN: 9780860682998
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Press Reviews

  • Elizabeth Jane Howard

    Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen
  • Cyril Connolly

    A model of selection and compression . . . Combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
  • Kirkus Reviews
    While the title keys the mood here, furthered by a prose style as opalescent as a moonstone, the sub-title really defines this memoir which is 'sub-autobiographical' or interior
  • English PEN

    Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes like power relationships within families, translated through the distorted lens of memory-writing that, like Lehmann's, moves the reader deeply
  • Cyril Connolly
    A model of selection and compression ... combines something of the earthiness of Colette with the imaginative insight of Virginia Woolf
  • Elizabeth Jane Howard
    Full of her sensibility, her funniness, her own peculiar acumen