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Vera

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781844082810

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Lucy Entwhistle’s beloved father has just died, and aged twenty-two, she finds herself alone in the world. Leaning against her garden gate, dazed and unhappy, she is disturbed by the sudden appearance of the perspiring Mr Wemyss.

This middle-aged man is also in mourning – for his wife, Vera, who has died in mysterious circumstances. Before Lucy can collect herself, Mr Wemyss has taken charge: of the funeral arrangements, of her kind Aunt Dot, but most of all of Lucy herself, body and soul. Elizabeth von Arnim’s masterpiece, VERA is a forceful study of the power of men in marriage – and the weakness of women in love.

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Elizabeth von Arnim is a mistress of irony
Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
She has a wild sense of comedy and a vision continually thwarted though it was of potential happiness
Penelope Mortimer