This Sweet Sickness

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Virago Modern Classics

Valley Of The Dolls

JACQUELINE SUSANN

Classics

Crampton Hodnet

Barbara Pym

LITTLE TEA A LITTLE CHAT

Christina Stead

Contemporary

MAGIC TOYSHOP (Virago Modern Classics)

CARTER, ANGELA

Brown Girl, Brownstones

Paule Marshall

Miss Herbert (The Suburban Wife)

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a judge should be. Then, ten years after his first wife's death, he marries the frivolous young Wanda Fay. No-one can understand his action, not least his beloved daughter, Laurel, who finds it hard to accept the new bride. It is only some years later, when circumstance brings her back to her childhood home, that Laurel stirs old memories and comes to understand the peculiarities of her upbringing, and the true relationship between her parents and herself. The Optimist's Daughter is a reflective, poignant novel of independence and love, for which Eudora Welty, one of America's gretest contemporary Southern writers, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

The Optimist's Daughter

EUDORA WELTY

ROARING NINETIES

Katharine Susannah Prichard

British & Irish

Winifred Holtby affectionately observes the foibles of human nature in this sparkling satire, first published in 1931 Caroline Denton-Smyth is an eccentric, dressed in trailing feathers and jangling beads, peering out from behind her lorgnette. Sitting alone in her West Kensington bedsitter, she dreams of the Christian Cinema Company—her vehicle for reform. For Caroline sees herself as a pioneer, one who must risk everything for the "Cause of the Right." Her board of directors is a motley crew including Basil St. Denis, upper crust but impecunious; Joseph Isenbaum, aspiring to society and Eton for his son; Eleanor de la Roux, Caroline's independent cousin from South Africa; Hugh Macafee, a curt Scottish film technician; young Father Mortimer, scarred from World War I; and Clifton Johnson, a seedy American scenario writer on the make.

Poor Caroline

Winifred Holtby

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