Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird cherries, lilacs, hollyhocks and lilies... Læs mere
*A novel sparkling with von Arnim's characteristic wit and irony*With an afterword by Lisa St Aubin de Teran*With an Afterword by Lisa St Aubin de Teran
*A touching and funny novel about a once-beautiful woman who, approaching her fiftieth birthday, realises she is no longer the belle of the ball.
This new scholarly edition of von Arnim's popular novel will tease out the interplay between seriousness and comedy as a response to war trauma and the wider historical context, while engaging with notions of literary fashion, popularity, and film in the period.
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*A witty and ecstatic tale of transforming a wilderness into a garden*By the author of The Enchanted April*Introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard
*A poignant and humorous tale of love between an older woman and a younger man