The Constant Nymph
by Margaret Kennedy
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Pub Date Aug 07 2014 | Archive Date Sep 25 2014
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Vintage Digital
Description
Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his 'Circus' of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.
When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.
A Note From the Publisher
UK edition – available to read in UK, Commonwealth and Europe excluding Canada.
Advance Praise
Splendid - Spectator
It's
a novel about ideas...as well as the sort of delicious and merciless
emotions that can make people exuberant or desperate - The Atlantic
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed
Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians - Irish Times
Miss Kennedy . . . finds herself well to the front among novelists, men or women, of today. Its theme is the clash between two incompatible worlds, and its solution is reached through tragedy - New York Times (1924)
Marketing Plan
The Harry Potter/Twilight/Fifty Shades of its day - The Constant Nymph was a worldwide bestseller and literary sensation of the 1920s
Noel Coward and John Gielgud starred in a popular West End stage adaptation, and there were several films made of The Constant Nymph
90th anniversary of publication in 2014
For fans of Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, W.Somerset Maugham, Tessa Hadley, Edith Wharton, Zoe Heller, Ian McEwan (of Atonement), Jane Austen
Elegantly
told tales of upper/middle-class life in the early 20th century:
marriage, families, usually ending in tragedy. Kennedy has a sharp,
insightful eye that will be enjoyed by readers of Ian McEwan, Elizabeth
Bowen or W.Somerset Maugham.
Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781448192038 |
| PRICE | £9.98 (GBP) |
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