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Dusty Answer (Paperback)

by Rosamond Lehmann (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844082946
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844082940
  • Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 94,550 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers and daughters' MARGARET DRABBLE 'The lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES 'It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' Jonathan Coe

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'Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness. Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover. And next door also they slept unawares, while one of them broke from the circle and came alone to clasp a stranger ...' Judith Earle, over-earnest and inexperienced, has always been a little in love with each of the four cousins who come to stay next door and, on her return from Cambridge, becomes madly in love with one of them - Roddy, the 'sensation-hunter'. DUSTY ANSWER traces with delicate nostalgia childhood friendships and the pangs of thwarted young love.

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5.0 out of 5 stars haunting evocation of the loss of innocence , 26 Nov 2006
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Judith, sensitive, lonely and secretive, meets the family of cousins who move in next door and falls in love with all of them. This exquisite novel follows her relationships, the disappointments, the joys and the ultimate heartbreak that she experiences as she engages with life and grows from an innocent girl to a woman.

Brilliantly written, evocative and passionate, this is, for me, Lehmann's best novel.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A review of 'Dusty Answer' by Rosamond Lehmann, 27 Jun 2001
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'Dusty Answer' is about a young girl called Judith and her life with the Fyfe family next door. At different stages in the book she gets close to each one of them, she starts off her life as a watcher, but soon is joined in to the group. The book deals with death, friendship, broken hearts but mostly with love and is very passionate It also follows her adventures at Cambridge and about her close, consuming relationships there. i really enjoyed reading this book and i think Rosamond Lehmann is a great author.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A poignant picture of adolescence, 8 Feb 2000
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This was a novel that I came across purely by chance and it really deserves a higher profile. Its descriptions of adolescence are quite dreamlike and yet it still had the power to move me to tears more that once! Although its style lacks the intensity and experimentation of some of its contempories it is nonetheless a real treat.
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5.0 out of 5 stars a wonderful book
This book deserves to have a wider readership. A story about a girl's love for the family next door - a great coming of age tale.
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