Teresa Lane watches the slow movement of life in her family, its courtships, anxieties and shifting loyalties in an English country house, and is teased by its complexity. Only by transposing it into art can she reduce it to its essentials, so she writes a play, set in another time and place, that mirrors them, and the play is embedded in the novel.
A subtle modernist study of the literary temperament by the author of Lud-in-the-Mist. Download the free EPUB.