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Odd Girl Out (Paperback)

by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Author)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books; New edition edition (11 Aug 1995)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330338323
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330338325
  • Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 12.9 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 144,225 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Edmund and Anne Cornhill have a happy marriage and a charming house. But three becomes a crowd when beautiful, rich, amoral Arabella comes to stay one long summer and a web of love entangles them all. But it will be Arabella who loses in the end. Howard is devastatingly observant, conveying misery, loneliness and love alike with a few strokes of detail. Her minor characters are as memorable as her protagonists, all expressing unfathomable emotions with the minutiae of their lives. (Kirkus UK)

During the course of this book Anne Cornhill, one of the three characters, is seen reading Elizabeth Taylor who also writes fastidious interpersonal novels such as this. Admittedly with more substance, and with less gracious living which here is difficult to undercut. Every occasion, even a bout of glandular fever, seems to call for champagne. But the situation is ordinary enough - a menage a trois which develops with the unexpected arrival of Arabella into a menage a deux - the until then exclusive and harmonious household of Anne and Edmund Cornhill. At first there's Arabella and Edmund, and then there's Arabella and Anne, and if sympathy is to be summoned up it's for Arabella, an overprivileged reject and the victim of a haphazard past - "just a kind of limpet; sticking to whatever seems to be suitable scenery." The scenery is attractive but in the end it seems to substitute for stronger passions in much the same way the novel does which really offers very little more than an elegant eye trip. It's by no means as appealing as her last, Something in Disguise (1970). (Kirkus Reviews)


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Anne and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage, a lovely home and are content, until Arabella comes to stay one summer. She is rich, rootless and amoral, and as the web of desire and love entangles all three, they realise someone will lose out. From the author of THE LONG VIEW and AFTER JULIUS. Originally published in 1972.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Elizabeth jane howard is the best writer around, 8 Jul 2000
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I started this book in a really jaded mood as I had given up about six previous novels in a row as I couldn't get into any of them. If I havn't got a book on the go I'm a real grump to live with! So it was with some relief(especially for my family)that I picked this one up.I've been a great fan of EJH's since I read about the Cazalets and since then I have found no one to better her writing.This was a lovely book,once again full of delightful descriptions about where people live and the food thet eat.When you finish any of her books you always miss the characters because she makes them seem so real.Anyway needless to say that when I finished this book.I no longer felt jaded and often look back fondly at it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Odd Girl Out, 5 Oct 2004
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Great story, intelligently written. Great script, more please.
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