Every emotional ripple is beautifully observed: the hideous anticipation, the agony of the empty dance card, the brief flutters of hope as various men take her for a turn around the dance floor, the many small disappointments that follow and the sudden vivid need to escape from the crowd, to flee, to breathe
Guardian
Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes
English PEN A novelist in the grand tradition, and, more than this, an innovator, the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions
Anita Brookner Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters, of suffering
Margaret Drabble No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann
Marghanita Laski A novelist in the grand tradition, and, more than this, an innovator, the first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings and perceptions
Anita Brookner
Lehmann has always written brilliantly of women in love, of mothers, of daughters, of suffering
Margaret Drabble
No English writer has told of the pains of women in love more truly or more movingly than Rosamond Lehmann
Marghanita Laski