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 ...