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by Rosamond Lehmann (Author) "DIRECTLY Madeleine came to the door, Dinah said, without looking at her: 'You've got the blue tubs.' ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (2 Mar 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844083128
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844083121
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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'She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is only hers, and is never forgotten... the inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that its hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins. That of course is what Rosamund Lehmann does best.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love' Margaret Drabble 'A novelist in the grand tradition . . . The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions' Anita Brookner 'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' Elizabeth Jane Howard


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Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a clandestine affair with Rickie. Madeleine, calm and resolute, has accepted that her marriage has been of limited success. Rickie's sudden death makes widows of both sisters in this highly imaginative novel that explores with extraordinary insight the sublimity, the rivalry and the pain of personal relationships. 'She makes a mood, an atmosphere, which is never forgotten ...The inner voice of women talking to themselves about their love affairs, knowing that it is hopeless, having to go ahead anyway, expecting the end as soon as it begins. That, of course, is what Rosamond Lehmann does best' Sunday Times
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely, gentle, and full of thoughts., 15 Dec 2000
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The Echoing Grove is a wonderful book, though I know not everyone would enjoy the style. I found it to be written in the fashion of a watercolour, delicate and subtle but with great depth and colour.

One yearns to help the charactors, but they are trapped in their own story. Sometimes a book is so vivid that one grows to care very much for the charactors, perhaps because one hears echoes of one's own life in their words.

Rosamund Lehmann's style is somewhat quaint and old fashioned, but it was a relief to read a gentle book about thoughts and feelings. It reminded me of E.M. Forster's "Howards End".

I throughly recommend this as a thoughful book about the frailties, the similarities, and the differences of men and woman.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Delicate and pain-filled, 2 Nov 2009
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This was written in 1957 and so I guess it's one of Lehmann's later works: it certainly feels different in atmosphere from her classics (The Weather in the Streets (Virago Modern Classics), or the utterly sublime Dusty Answer.

At heart it explores an erotic triangle of Madeleine, her husband Rickie, and his love affair with her sister Dinah. The books shifts point of view between the three of them and allows us into their heads in turn. And although it is a book about love in all its manifestations, it is an incredibly pain-filled and melancholic book as Lehmann dissects these human hearts.

As another reviewer has commented, the style might be a little off-putting if you are only used to reading contemporary novels, but it is worth persevering. I don't think this is quite as good as some of Lehmann's earlier works, but it's still very good indeed. And, far from finding it gentle, I think it's actually a very angry book just that the violence of abused emotions sits below the surface rather than right on top of it. Highy recommended.

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