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'A beautifully telling comedy by one of our foremost novelists' ANGUS WILSON 'One in a thousand. How deeply I envy any reader coming to her for the first time' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD
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'You know,' Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. 'Perhaps there's nothing so dangerous as having led a sheltered life.' Cressy has grown up in a world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artistic grandfather Harry Bretton. Rebelling against the wholesome, organic values of her home life, Cressy decides to leave home in search of more ephemeral pleasures. Taking a job in an antiques shop, she meets David, a self-satisfied journalist, also looking for means of fleeing the family nest. But as Cressy cannot fend for herself and David is securely tied to his mother's apron strings, this act of escape for both of them proves a powerful form of bondage.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is one of ET's less famous but most fantastic novels - sharp, funny, very sad, amazingly observant and honest about love, relationships, family, ageing...I don't agree at all with the previous reviewer, and can't recommend this book highly enough. If you want to understand why Elizabeth Taylor is such a great great novelist, and why she should be much better known, this is a great place to start {unlike my favourite, Angel, which isn't much like her others at all}.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Rather to my surprise - for until now I'd have given five * to everything that Elizabeth Taylor wrote - but The Wedding Group didn't really work for me. Cressy's family live in a dreadful, self-consciously unworldly artistic-religious 'colony' dominated by the figure of her grandfather, who is a cross between Eric Gill and Augustus John with a dash of Stanley Spencer. Life is all homespun, mung beans and mud and something nasty in the woodshed. Cressy, however, is determined to escape. She meets David - who must be the least convincing Fleet Street journalist in the whole of English literature - and he is amused by her naivete and ends up marrying her. But will they ever free themselves from the coils of David's controlling mother?
Frankly, by the end I couldn't have cared less and was completely fed up with the whole cast of cardboard cut-outs.
So if this is your first dip into ElizabethTaylor, try something else ... apart from this one book, I have never found her anything less than brilliant.
A post-script to this: Something I have since discovered from Nicola Beauman's new biography of Elizabeth Taylor, is that she lived near Eric Gill and helped in his workshop, possibly even posed for him. Beauman also describes this as the weakest novel, and says that Taylor struggled to get the right satirical tone whilst still recognising Gill's stature as an artist. For once, she didn't pull it off. But do try her other novels which are wonderful.
Frankly, by the end I couldn't have cared less and was completely fed up with the whole cast of cardboard cut-outs.
So if this is your first dip into ElizabethTaylor, try something else ... apart from this one book, I have never found her anything less than brilliant.
A post-script to this: Something I have since discovered from Nicola Beauman's new biography of Elizabeth Taylor, is that she lived near Eric Gill and helped in his workshop, possibly even posed for him. Beauman also describes this as the weakest novel, and says that Taylor struggled to get the right satirical tone whilst still recognising Gill's stature as an artist. For once, she didn't pull it off. But do try her other novels which are wonderful.
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This author should be better known!
26 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback
If you haven't yet read any Elizabeth Taylor, I urge you to give her a try. Subtle but telling writing. She knows people and human nature.
This is a wonderfully written story of lonely people thrown together in different ways. Reminded me many times of Barbara Pym.
Especially recommended for fans of Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch, or Rebecca West.
This is a wonderfully written story of lonely people thrown together in different ways. Reminded me many times of Barbara Pym.
Especially recommended for fans of Barbara Pym, Iris Murdoch, or Rebecca West.
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