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Dusty Answer (VMC) [Paperback]

Rosamond Lehmann (Author)
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Publication Date: 2 Mar 2006 | ISBN-10: 1844082946 | ISBN-13: 978-1844082940 | Edition: New Ed

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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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Virago; New Ed edition (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844082946
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844082940
  • Product Dimensions: 1.9 x 12.1 x 19 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 262,504 in Books (See Top 100 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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DUSTY ANSWER, Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, was published to sensational acclaim in 1927 and became a landmark book of the inter-war period, shocking in its time, capturing the voice of the younger generation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Passionate and absorbing 12 Dec 2009
By A. Hope
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Oh my I loved this novel. It is amazing to think that this novel first published in 1927 was Rosamund Lehmann's first novel. It is so beautifully written, passionate and finely observed. The voices of these young people resonate wonderfully. Their manner of speech could seem affected and odd in these modern times, and yet serves to demonstrate for us reading now, the times and emotional confusions of so many young people between the wars. This novel must have caused quite a stir upon it's publication, as the naive Judith becomes enamoured first of Jennifer, a close friend, whilst at Cambridge, and then falls recklessly in love with Roddy, one member of the Fyfe family who had so mesmerised her as a child. The Fyfe's are a family of cousins who dazzle the young Judith and awaken new feelings in her as she grows toward womanhood. The lives of Judith and the Fyfe family are dramatic, sad and sometimes hopeless. Utterly compelling, it is also truly absorbing, and a book I was sorry to finish.
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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 haunting evocation of the loss of innocence 26 Nov 2006
By Roman Clodia TOP 50 REVIEWER
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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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