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Flora is a young Oxford lecturer, whose love affair with a married man has ended in tragedy. She faces a bleak, empty world. Following an ill-fated flight to a villa in Tuscany, and the collapse of her warm friendship with Lalage, an Oxford colleague, Flora is close to breakdown.
She is rescued by her understanding family and by her return to Oxford, where she finds release from her own emotional problems in those of her most brilliant student, Nan, who seems about to sacrifice her career on the alter of revolutionary politics.
Lettice Cooper explores and illuminates the varied contrasts of generations, classes and beliefs, and is equally absorbing in the smaller world of university rivalries and gossip, or the hot-house jealousies and intrigues in an Italian villa. Above all, this book illuminates the personality of a young woman at a crisis in her life.
She is rescued by her understanding family and by her return to Oxford, where she finds release from her own emotional problems in those of her most brilliant student, Nan, who seems about to sacrifice her career on the alter of revolutionary politics.
Lettice Cooper explores and illuminates the varied contrasts of generations, classes and beliefs, and is equally absorbing in the smaller world of university rivalries and gossip, or the hot-house jealousies and intrigues in an Italian villa. Above all, this book illuminates the personality of a young woman at a crisis in her life.
Flora is a young Oxford lecturer, whose love affair with a married man has ended in tragedy. She faces a bleak, empty world. Following an ill-fated flight to a villa in Tuscany, and the collapse of her warm friendship with Lalage, an Oxford colleague, Flora is close to breakdown.
She is rescued...
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Lettice Cooper was born in Eccles, Lancashire in 1897. She began to write stories when she was seven, and graduated with a degree in Classics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1918.
She returned home after Oxford to work for her family's engineering firm and wrote her first novel, The Lighted Room in 1925. She spent a year as Associate Editor at Time and Tide and during the Second World War worked for the Ministry of Food's public relations division.
She was one of the founders of the Writers' Action Group and received an OBE for her work in achieving Public Lending Rights. In 1987 at the age of ninety she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Leeds. She never married and died in 1994 in Coltishall, Norfolk.
She returned home after Oxford to work for her family's engineering firm and wrote her first novel, The Lighted Room in 1925. She spent a year as Associate Editor at Time and Tide and during the Second World War worked for the Ministry of Food's public relations division.
She was one of the founders of the Writers' Action Group and received an OBE for her work in achieving Public Lending Rights. In 1987 at the age of ninety she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Leeds. She never married and died in 1994 in Coltishall, Norfolk.
Lettice Cooper was born in Eccles, Lancashire in 1897. She began to write stories when she was seven, and graduated with a degree in Classics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1918.
She returned home after Oxford to work for her family's engineering firm and wrote her first novel, The Lighted R...
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