Dusty Answer (Virago Modern Classics)

ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 'The lyrical, sensuous quality . . . puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers' THE TIMES'It will consume you . . . transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read' JONATHAN COE'She is immensely readable, acute, passionate, funny and original' ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD'Mamma was fast asleep at home, her spirit lapped in unconsciousness.Her dreams would not divine that her daughter had stolen out to meet a lover. And next door also they slept unawares, while one of them broke from the circle and came alone to clasp a stranger . . . 'A sensitive only child, Judith Earle has always been a little in love with the glamorous Fyfe boys who come to stay in the house next door.With the War over and Judith on the brink of going to Cambridge, the cousins arrive again - and she is caught once more in their spell.Falling hopelessly in love with Roddy, Judith's passionate entanglements - with each of t