The Weather in the Streets

by Rosamond Lehmann

Overview

In 1930s England, an encounter on a train leads to an illicit affair, in this novel of “spare, poetic prose” by the author of Invitation to the Waltz (Joyce Carol Oates).
 
Just ten years ago, Olivia Curtis attended her first dance. Now she is divorced and living with her cousin in London. When she gets a call notifying her that her father is gravely ill, she makes preparations to return to Tulverton, in the English countryside—and on the railway journey home, she runs into Rollo Spencer, her girlhood crush.
 
He and Olivia once shared a fleeting, magical moment on a moonlit terrace that she has never forgotten. Now, fate has thrown them together again, and in spite of the fact that Rollo is married, they embark on a clandestine affair.
 
The Weather in the Streets charts the tempestuous course of Olivia and Rollo’s forbidden relationship, from the first throes of passion through the toll of their deception on Olivia as she confronts the harsh reality of being the other woman. A novel ahead of its time that touched on a variety of taboo subjects, it is an enduring classic by an author who “has always written brilliantly of women in love” (Margaret Drabble).
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781504003100
Publisher:	Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Series:	The Olivia Curtis Novels , #2
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Lehmann is unbeatable on social nuance, both among the London bohemian set and Rollo’s more conventional upper-clash milieu. No one could be more attractive or caddish than Lehmann’s Rollo, the married man who entrances our heroine. The ultimate tragic love story.” —Alexandra Shulman, editor of Vogue (UK)
 
“The Weather in the Streets was our Bridget Jones’s Diary.” —Carmen Callil
 
“A vividly realised, painfully convincing story of a love affair, written in Lehmann's characteristic spare, poetic prose.” —Joyce Carol Oates

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