No Signposts In The Sea
By (Author) Vita Sackville-West
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
12th August 1996
31st December 1985
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: literary and general
823.912
160
Width 196mm, Height 124mm, Spine 14mm
120g
Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger. Exhilarated by the distant vista of exotic islands never to be visited and his conversations with Laura, Edmund finds himself rethinking all his values. A voyage on many levels, those long purposeless days at sea find Edumnd relinquishing the past as he discovers the joys and the pain of a love he is simultaneously determined to conceal.
'A moving and original book . her fictional testament' Victoria Glendinning
Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was born and educated at Knole. She and her husband Harold Nicolson created the famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent.