Book description
>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.>
