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The Echoing Grove

(1953)
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Two sisters: Madeleine and Dinah. One husband: Rickie Masters. For many years now, Dinah, exotic and sensual, has conducted a clandestine affair with Rickie. Madeleine, calm and resolute, has accepted that her marriage has been of limited success. Rickie's sudden death makes widows of both sisters in this highly imaginative novel that explores with extraordinary insight the sublimity, the rivalry and the pain of personal relationships.

Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"A novelist in the grand tradition . . . 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." - Margaret Drabble

"She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original." - Elizabeth Jane Howard


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