The Olivia Curtis Novels: Invitation to the Waltz and The Weather in the Streets

Ten years separate these two poignant novels featuring the same young woman, by the New York Times–bestselling "novelist in the grand tradition" (Anita Brookner).

British novelist Rosamond Lehmann "has always written brilliantly of women in love" (Margaret Drabble). In her pair of novels featuring Olivia Curtis—a shy, romantic, and hopeful seventeen-year-old looking forward to her first dance, and later, a sadder young woman in her twenties who still longs to capture lost passion—Lehmann ...