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Halt During the Chase

Rosemary Tonks
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      Finally back in print, a brilliantly funny and brutal novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The BloaterSophie’s mother knows exactly how to needle her. Sophie’s lover Philip knows how to stab her in the heart. She may be clever, charming and smart but is Sophie destined to be an eternal bit-part?After a particular agonising throwaway remark from Philip, Sophie knows she must break away – from her mother, from Philip, from the snobbery of her well-to-do Hampstead Heath upbringing. Being good and agreeable has brought nothing but loneliness, now setting out alone might finally bring freedom.'A bubbly, empathetic and ultimately lovely novel of a belated coming-of-age' New York Times'Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks' The Millions
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rosemary Tonks EAN: 9781784879303 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 200 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-05-02 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      London, Greater London, Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues

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      Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences, and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase. Tonks wrote for the Observer, The Times, New York Review of Books, Listener, New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.
      Finally back in print, a brilliantly funny and brutal novel from the inimitable Rosemary Tonks, author of The BloaterSophie’s mother knows exactly how to needle her. Sophie’s lover Philip knows how to stab her in the heart. She may be clever, charming and smart but is Sophie destined to be an eternal bit-part?After a particular agonising throwaway remark from Philip, Sophie knows she must break away – from her mother, from Philip, from the snobbery of her well-to-do Hampstead Heath upbringing. Being good and agreeable has brought nothing but loneliness, now setting out alone might finally bring freedom.'A bubbly, empathetic and ultimately lovely novel of a belated coming-of-age' New York Times'Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks' The Millions
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Rosemary Tonks EAN: 9781784879303 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 200 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Vintage Publishing DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-05-02 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      London, Greater London, Classic fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Social issues

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      Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences, and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase. Tonks wrote for the Observer, The Times, New York Review of Books, Listener, New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.

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