Book description
The life of Rosamond Lehmann was as romantic and harrowing as that of
any of her fictional heroines. Her first novel, the shocking Dusty
Answer, became wildly successful launching her career as a
novelist and, just as her novels depicted the tempestuous lives of her
heroines, Rosamond's personal life would be full of heartbreaking
affairs and lost loves.
Escaping from a disastrous early marriage Rosamond moved right into
the heart of Bloomsbury society with Wogan Philipps. Later on she
would embark on the most important love affair of her life, with the
poet Cecil Day Lewis; nine years later he abandoned her for a young
actress - a betrayal from which she would never recover.
Selina Hastings masterfully creates a portrait of a woman whose
dramatic life, work and relationships criss-crossed the cultural,
literary and political landscape of England in the middle of the
twentieth century.
Selina Hastings is a writer and literary journalist. She worked for
fourteen years on the Daily Telegraph and subsequently as literary
editor of Harper's & Queen. She has also written the prize-winning
Evelyn Waugh: A Biography
and
Nancy Mitford
.
