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A Game Of Hide And Seek
Elizabeth Taylor
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Description for A Game Of Hide And Seek
hardcover. * A wonderful novel about first love and childhood summers by Elizabeth Taylor. Series: VMC Designer Collection. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 28. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clothbound copy showing light age and shelfwear. Slight discolouration to front cover. Remains a very nice reading copy with clean text throughout
A stunning hardback edition of Elizabeth Taylor's wonderful novel about first love and childhood summers, with a cover design by Celia Birtwell.
During summer games of hide-and-seek Harriet falls in love with Vesey and his elusive, teasing ways. When he goes to Oxford she cherishes his photograph and waits for the letter that never comes. Then Charles enters her life, and Harriet stifles her imaginings. With a husband and daughter, she excels at respectability: ornaments on the mantlepiece, remembered birthdays and jars of lilac. But when Vesey reappears, her marriage seems to melt away. Harriet is older, it is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
VMC Designer Collection
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085293
SKU
KMO0001847
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) is increasingly recognised as one of the best British writers of the twentieth century. She wrote her first book, At Mrs Lippincote's, during the war while her husband was in the Royal Air Force, and this was followed by eleven further novels and a children's book, Mossy Trotter. Her acclaimed short stories appeared in publications including Vogue, ... Read more
Reviews for A Game Of Hide And Seek
Always intelligent, often subversive and never dull, Elizabeth Taylor is the thinking person's dangerous housewife. Her sophisticated prose combines elegance, icy wit and freshness in a stimulating cocktail - the perfect toast to the quiet horror of domestic life
Valerie Martin
A magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike'
David ... Read more
Valerie Martin
A magnificent and underrated mid-20th-century writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike'
David ... Read more