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For when Chris rebuilt Baldry Court after his marriage, he handed it over to architects who had not so much the wild eye of the artist as the knowing wink of the manicurist, and between them they massaged the dear old place into matter for innumerable photos in the illustrated papers.But of late this universe unto itself cannot quite keep out an England altered by ambition and industry. Only a few miles away a "red suburban stain," Wealdstone, has somehow cropped up. And one day all is permanently altered--or, rather, revealed--when a Wealdstone resident comes bearing news of Captain Baldry. Mrs. William Gray is clearly not of Chris's wife Kitty and his cousin Jenny's class, as Kitty in particular makes her aware. "Again her gray eyes brimmed," Jenny observes. "People are rude to one, she visibly said, but surely not nice people like this." How is it, then, that this dreary, "dingy" woman knows Chris and knows that something has happened to him? And how is it that Jenny soon comes to see her as someone "whose personality was sounding through her squalor like a beautiful voice singing in a darkened room"?
In the remainder of this brief, perfect novel, a vanished (or repressed) past and its lost prospect of happiness comes to the fore. Rebecca West is best remembered for Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia (1941), but she displays the same vision--and a similar degree of realism--in her charged 1916 novel. Many readers will passionately regret the book's last twist, even as they know it to be artistically as well as historically true. --Kerry Fried
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his devoted cousin Jenny wait in their exquisite home on the crest of the Harrow-weald. Margaret Allington, his first and long-forgotten love, is nearby in the dreary suburb of Wealdstone. But the soldier is shell-shocked and can only remember the Margaret he loved fifteen years before, when he was a young man and she an inn-keeper's daughter. His cousin he remembers only as a childhood playmate; his wife he remembers not at all. The women have a choice - to leave him where he wishes to be, or to 'cure' him. It is Margaret who reveals a love so great that she can make the final sacrifice. This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781844086986
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Book Description Condition: New. 2010. Paperback. This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. . . . . . Seller Inventory # V9781844086986
Book Description Condition: New. 2010. Paperback. This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9781844086986