The Weather In The Streets
Publishing Details
The Weather In The Streets
By (Author) Rosamond Lehmann
Introduction by Elizabeth Day
Introduction by Carmen Callil
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
4th May 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
823.912
Physical Properties
384
Width 130mm, Height 198mm, Spine 24mm
268g
Description
Taking up where AN INVITATION TO THE WALTZ left off, THE WEATHER IN THE STREETS shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apprently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms. Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love.
Reviews
'...the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' - Anita Brookner 'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' - Elizabeth Jane Howard
Author Bio
Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire and educated privately before going to Girton College, Cambridge, as a scholar. She was made a CBE in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished writers of the 20th century.
