My first and last thanks are to Kevin O’Sullivan, without whom this book would have been neither conceived nor written.
Also by Victoria Glendinning
NON-FICTION
Trollope
Rebecca West: A Life
Vita: The Life of Vita Sackville-West
Edith Sitwell: A Unicorn Among Lions
Elizabeth Bowen: Portrait of a Writer
Jonathan Swift
A Suppressed Cry
Hertfordshire
Sons and Mothers (ed., with Mathew Glendinning)
FICTION
The Grown-Ups
Electricity
About the Author
Victoria Glendinning is the award winning biographer of Trollope, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West and Jonathan Swift. Her previous novels, The Grown-Ups and Electricity, were critical and commercial successes. She divides her time between London, Provence and Ireland.
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First published in Great Britain by Scribner, 2000 an imprint of Simon & Schuster UK Ltd A Viacom Company
First U.S. Edition: July 2003
eISBN 9781466873599
First eBook edition: May 2014
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