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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 823.914 EAN: 9781844083220 Edition: New edition ISBN: 1844083225 Label: Virago Press Ltd Manufacturer: Virago Press Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: April 06, 2006 Publisher: Virago Press Ltd Studio: Virago Press Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Always wonderful Elizabeth TaylorMrs Taylor never disappoints and this time gives us a wonderfully well-observed, compassionately funny glimpse into the lives of the inhabitants of a faded seaside harbour, shortly after the war. If their lives are mundane, there still seems to be a lot going on, all observed by dreadful, bed-ridden Mrs Bracey, proprietor of the second-hand clothes shop - who doesn't miss a thing from her upstairs window. Elizabeth Taylor paints a wonderful picture of female friendship between Beth, distracted lady novelist/ terrible housewife/neglectful mother and her nextdoor neighbour Tory - who is Beth's old schoolfriend, chic, divorced, and playing a dangerous game with her best friend's husband. Nothing happens and everything happens - behind the harbour's net curtains, there is passion and betrayal, loneliness, loyalty, the dreadful vitality of the dying Mrs Bracey, the adolescent droopiness of Beth's daughter ... and you finish, as always with Elizabeth Taylor, wishing you could meet them all again in five years time and find out what happened to them all after the last page! Rating:  - A view of the harbourI was looking forward to this book as it was recommended by Sarah Waters. I am sorry to say i was very dissapointed in the book and found it really boring, the story never got going, the characters lacked depth and i found myself waiting for something to happen. A very unenjoyable and frustrating read. Rating:  - Sad little post-war livesAt first view, this is a woman's novel. Probably also at second view! It's a domestic story; it's about friendship, adultery, betrayal, the dreary lives of women (and men), how the second-rate convince themselves that they are first-rate. And so on. But it is also, like all her novels, extremely funny. The tensions between family members are well observed, as are the ways in which people deceive themselves and others. Painful as well as funny.  Try searching the Internet for "A View of the Harbour (Virago Modern Classics)" or Ebay for "A View of the Harbour (Virago Modern Classics)". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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