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Published on 1 October 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Penguin Modern Classics' series.
Author(s): Warner, Sylvia Townsend, Binding: Hardback, Date of Publication: 25/08/2022, Pagination: 208 pages, Series: Little Clothbound Classics, Imprint: Penguin Classics, Published By: Penguin Books Ltd, Book Classification: Fiction & related items, ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780241573785 When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. . Celebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Lolly is a 28-year-old spinster when her adored father dies, leaving her dependent upon her brothers and their wives. 71 Balham High Road, Balham, SW12 9AP 'The book I'll be pressing into people's hands forever is Lolly Willowes . tips suddenly into extraordinary, lucid wildness' Helen Macdonald'Witty, eerie, tender . her prose, in its simple, abrupt evocations, has something preternatural about it' John Updike