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The Ballad and the Source

The Ballad and the Source - Paperback

by Rosamond Lehmann
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rosamond LehmannSeries:Rebecca Landon Novels #1Publish date:2015-07-21Pages:358
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504007757ISBN-10:1504007751UPC:9781504007757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCDPB4RE52
A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain's best-loved authors

Sibyl Jardine, the former best friend of Rebecca Landon's grandmother, has recently returned to the Priory, her home at the top of a hill. Rebecca is instantly drawn in by Sibyl's magnetic personality and blunt, shocking manner. Decades earlier, Sibyl had left her husband Charles for another man and, as a result, lost her daughter Ianthe. Now she is finally about to meet her three grandchildren, who will become an integral part of Rebecca's life as she journeys into adolescence.

At the heart of this extraordinary novel is the enigma that is Sibyl Jardine: Is she a saint or a sinner? Is she a duplicitous lover or a woman who has been unjustly punished? Played out in a series of conversations between Rebecca, Sibyl Jardine, Jardine's granddaughter Maisie, and a Cockney maid named Tilly, The Ballad and the Source is a tale of perception and memory, passion and betrayal, and the fearsome power of a mother's love.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Open Road Integrated Media LLCISBN-13:9781504007757ISBN-10:1504007751UPC:9781504007757Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Coming of Age, Family Life, LiterarySize:8.00 x 5.25 x 0.78 inchesWeight:0.8818Product ID:SCDPB4RE52
Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC

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