The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic) - Softcover

Elizabeth Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0385279191 ISBN 13: 9780385279192

Publisher: Dial Press, 1983

Synopsis

Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comfort a bereaved friend. Vinny is prepared for a solemn few days of tears and consolation. But on the evening of his arrival, he looks out of the window at the sunset and catches sight of a mysterious, romantic figure: a beautiful woman walking by the seashore. Before the week is over Vinny has fallen in love, completely and utterly, for the first time in his middle-aged life. Emily, though, is a sleeping beauty, her secluded life hiding bitter secrets from the past.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Taylor was born in Reading in 1912. The daughter of an insurance inspector, she worked as a governess and, later, in a library. At the age of twenty-four she married and had a son and daughter. She lived much of her married life in the village of Penn (Bucks). She died in 1975.

Review:

Brilliantly amusing * Rosamund Lehmann * An eye as sharply all-seeing as her prose-style is elegant -- even the humdrum becomes astonishing * DAILY TELEGRAPH * How skilfully and with what peculiar exhilaration she negotiated the minefield of the human heart * Jonathan Keates * A wonderful novelist * Jilly Cooper *

About this edition

• Publisher: Dial Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0385279191
• ISBN 13: 9780385279192
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250