Book description
'You know,' Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and
could not at once think of anything to say. 'Perhaps there's nothing so
dangerous as having led a sheltered life.' Cressy has grown up in a
world of women, presided over by her eccentric, artistic grandfather
Harry Bretton. Rebelling against the wholesome, organic values of her
home life, Cressy decides to leave home in search of more ephemeral
pleasures. Taking a job in an antiques shop, she meets David, a
self-satisfied journalist, also looking for means of fleeing the family
nest. But as Cressy cannot fend for herself and David is securely tied
to his mother's apron strings, this act of escape for both of them
proves a powerful form of bondage. Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975) was
born in Reading, Berkshire and spent much of her life in Penn,
Buckinghamshire. Critically she is one of the most acclaimed British
novelists of this century. Viraga publishes twelve of her sixteen works
of fiction.
