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Carrie's War by Nina Bawden
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
One of the most loved and enduring wartime novels, Carrie's War is a modern classic. WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MICHAEL MORPURGO AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALAN MARKS 'A touching, utterly convincing book' JACQUELINE WILSON 'Poignant and realistic . . . Carrie's War captures the true reality of war for a child, an ...Show more
Cinderella Goes to the Morgue by Nancy Spain
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'Her detective novels are hilarious - less about detecting than delighting, with absurd farce and a wonderful turn of phrase . . . Nancy Spain was bold, she was brave, she was funny, she was feisty. I owe her a great deal' Sandi ToksvigWhen Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the b ...Show more
Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady by Florence King
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule; Jackie Kay (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good-near fine
Set in the late 1950s, this is the story of Evelyn Hall, an English Professor who is about to put an end to her disastrous 16-year marriage. She meets Ann Childs, 15 years her junior, and the pair embark on an affair, and begin the struggle to figure out just how a relationship between two women can las ...Show more
Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth Von Arnim
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
May 7th -- There were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies ...' Elizabeth's uniquely witty pen records each season in her beloved garden, where she escapes from the s ...Show more
Faces in the Water by Janet Frame
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
Written with unsparing precision and astounding immediacy, Faces in the Water takes the reader behind the walls of two hospitals--Cliffhaven and Treecroft--and into the hearts and minds of its confused and tormented patients. The experience of insanity and "the utter, the naked precariousness of existen ...Show more
Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love -- and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote ...Show more
Frost in May by Antonia White
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only devia ...Show more
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lo ...Show more
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...' Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy an ...Show more
Harriet Said... by Beryl Bainbridge
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics
A girl returns from boarding school to her sleepy Merseyside hometown and waits to be reunited with her childhood friend, Harriet, chief architect of all their past mischief. She roams listlessly along the shoreline and the woods still pitted with wartime trenches, and encounters 'the Tsar' - almost old ...Show more
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Category: No Category | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'I have bought more copies of this book to give to people, in a frenzy of enthusiasm, than any other . . . Heartburn is the perfect, bittersweet, sobbingly funny, all-too-true confessional novel' Nigella Lawson Seven months into her pregnancy, Rachel discovers that her husband is in love with another wo ...Show more