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The Beautiful Visit (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (2 Jul 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330332015
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330332019
  • Product Dimensions: 19.7 x 13 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 444,825 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A novel which, conveying much of the painful pride of youth, deals with profoundly ignorant, terribly conscious Lavinia's first trip from home - and its future results. Escaping the settled environment she has known with her composer (not successful) father, devoted but single-tracked mother, and conformist sister, she finds the Lancings and their Christmas guests the stuff that dreams are made of - and with their paths crossing throughout the years, she finds some answers to her small, personal revolts against her everpresent despair. For it is impudent, conceited Rupert whose sharpness awakens her, Ian, who in his serious, overwhelming love, sensitizes her and who with his death in World War I makes her receptive to the suffering she sees when she revisits the Lancings.... These are the subliminal experiences of an enclosed but observant, aware personality, whose potential capacity for life makes her the focus of impact after impact until maturity is reached. For a timeless, unbearable picture of late adolescence, this has its crystalline moments of hurting significance; for a montage of English life it has a period exquisiteness. Caviarnot codfish. (Kirkus Reviews)


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The author attempts to capture the longing, excitement and comedy of adolescence in this story of a young girl growing up in the years around World War I. By the author of "The Beautiful Visit", which won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Strange and fascinating first novel, 10 Nov 2001
This is yet another coming-of-age novel, but don't let that put you off- the treatment is never less than original. A structural twist is added by the fact that the novel begins and ends with the heroine spending Christmas at the house of the same family- four years of the first world war have intervened, changing her radically. The themes of the novel include love, marriage, madness, war, boredom, female emancipation, families and class. Elizabeth Jane Howard blends loving physical detail with an atmosphere which is at times compellingly sinister and at others weirdly beautiful or cosily reassuring. It's fascinating to read this if you've read EJH's later novels- the complete ease and relaxed wittiness aren't quite there (although the novel is often very funny) but the talent is palpable.
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