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The first of a four-volume work by Dorothy Richardson, this novel records the life of Miriam Henderson. Through her experience - personal, spiritual, intellectual - the author explores what it means to be a woman.

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* An elegiac novel of giving it all up for love -- and living to regret it.
* 'I like Elisabeth Russell Taylor. She gets better and better' A.S. Byatt.

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Published to coincide with a biography of Violet Trefusis, this romantic comedy set in the Twenties shows young aristocrat, Elizabeth Caracole being finished in Florence with the family of a Papal count - the dentist

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Mary Renault's powerful and tender first novel was written in the thirties and was, in many ways, far ahead of its time.

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A selection of Winifred Holtby's short stories.

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In this award-winning novel, Mary Renault explores the relationship between a doctor and her young lover.

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* A Virago Modern Classic
* These stories - all powerful moral analyses - demonstrate the true professionalism of Edith Wharton.

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From this well-loved author comes a novel that is 'an upper- middle-class version of Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies' (Independent on Sunday), full of intrigues, betrayals and family secrets.

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'This is Alice Hoffman at her best, turning our eyes toward the ordinary surface of things to see the power that shimmers underneath' - Amy Tan

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In these tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances, commonplace superstitions mingle effortlessly with submerged desire.

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Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel weaves a dark, clever tale of a young woman in thrall to a golden stranger in 1960s London.

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*A masterpiece of passion, reticence, and self-denial by one of the twentieth century's greatest writers

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From the author of Black Narcissus, this acclaimed coming-of-age novel examines the tensions of divorce from a child's perspective.

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A powerful novel that raises fundamental questions about parents and their children, and offers tentative hope but no tidy solutions.

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* A bestseller when it was first published in 1928, THE CHILDREN is a touching, bittersweet novel about a middle-aged man's relationship with a band of unruly children - and of his conflicting feelings for the eldest, a girl on the cusp of womanhood.

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The diary of a young Brazilian girl at the end of the nineteenth century. Translated by Elizabeth Bishop, one of the greatest American poets of the twentieth century.

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A tale of love lost -- and love regained.

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THE GLIMPSES OF THE MOON is a witty and entertaining examination of the moral deficiencies of the creed of materialism.

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Years ago, domineering Magda swept the shy, virginal Francis into one of the most extraordinary marriages imaginable. Now, as she lies dying, Francis's role as the Good Husband is put to the most extreme test. The story moves from the Deep South to Eastern Europe and the cathedral towns of England.

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* Spare and deft, The Life and Death of Harriett Frean is the quintessential modernist novel
* Sinclair's work is hugely important in terms of the development of the novel and the representation of women's lives

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A novel first published in 1913. George Darrow, a young diplomat en route from London to France, is engaged to be married to a respectable widow, but when she asks for time to prepare her children for the marriage he is unsettled, and embarks on an affair that will affect all their lives. From the author of THE AGE OF INNOCENCE.