School For Love
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cornerstone
Published:1st Aug '91
Should be back in stock very soon
From the most considerable of our women novelists a compelling portrait of a relationship between a young man and a matriarch.
Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.
Here is a woman of unfathomable depths of meanness and cunning -- a triumph of portraiture, compassionate, witty and assured. * Time and Tide *
Distinctly out of the ordinary, School for Love shows remarkable qualities of force and originality. * Times Literary Supplement *
"Deep, sharp and narrow." That is a phrase which has been applied to some of the finest mathematical analysts: I should like to borrow it to describe Olivia Manning -- This is a remarkable book. * C. P. Snow *
In common with the best writers, Olivia Manning has, besides wit, a sympathetic heart and a barometer-like sensitivity to the vagaries of human behaviour * Birmingham Post *
ISBN: 9780099416081
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
Weight: 181g
256 pages