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10 best books like The Echoing Grove (Rosamond Lehmann): The Tortoise and the Hare, The Rising Tide, The Constant Nymph, Sisters By a River, The Corner That Held Them, The Sugar House, The Land of Spices, Maurice Guest, Love for Lydia, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther

The Tortoise and the Hare
AuthorElizabeth Jenkins
ISBN0860682722
The magnetic Evelyn Gresham, 52, is a barrister of considerable distinction. He has everything life could offer -- a gracious riverside house in Berkshire, a beautiful young wife, Imogen, who is devoted to him, and their 11-year-old son, a replica of his father.

Their nearest neighbor is...
The Rising Tide
AuthorMolly Keane
ISBN0860684725
In 1900 Lady Charlotte French-McGrath is mistress of Garonlea, a huge gothic house in Ireland. She rules her household and her family -- husband Ambrose and children Muriel, Enid, Violet, Diana and Desmond -- with a rod of iron. Desmond's marriage to the beautiful, lively Cynthia and, several years...
The Constant Nymph
AuthorMargaret Kennedy
ISBN1844081907
Tessa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. The fourteen-year-old Tessa has fallen in love with Lewis Dodd, a gifted composer...
Sisters By a River
AuthorBarbara Comyns
On the banks of the River Avon, six sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree, and always there is the sound of water swirling through the weir. Then, unexpectedly, an air of decay descends upon the house: ivy grows unchecked over the windows, angry shouts...
The Corner That Held Them
AuthorSylvia Townsend Warner
In memory of the wife who had once dishonored and always despised him, Brian de Retteville founded a 12th-century convent in Norfolk. Two centuries later, the Benedictine community is well established there and, as befits a convent whose origin had such ironic beginnings, the inhabitants are prey...
The Sugar House
AuthorAntonia White
ISBN1844083799
The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance? she discarded four years...
The Land of Spices
AuthorKate O'Brien
ISBN1844083160
Mere Marie-Helene once turned her back on life, sealing up her heart in order to devote herself to God. Now the formidable Mother Superior of an Irish convent, she has, for some time, been experiencing grave doubts about her vocation. But when she meets Anna Murphy, the youngest-ever boarder, the little...
Maurice Guest
AuthorHenry Handel Richardson
ISBN1406838713
I am proofreading (R2-R3) this book for Gutenberg-Adelaide. I hope the corrections I've made will improve the manuscript's quality.

The original file is provided by InternetArcjive.

Free download available at eBooks@Adelaide.

This is the first book written by Henry...
Love for Lydia
AuthorH.E. Bates
ISBN0863076955
Love for Lydia was the first novel with an English setting that H.E. Bates wrote after the second world war, and it was his own favourite among his Northamptonshire novels. The Northants setting becomes the background both ugly and beautiful for the story of a young girl, the daughter of a decaying aristocratic...
Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther
AuthorElizabeth von Arnim
ISBN1844082822
This enchanting novel tells the story of the love affair between Rose-Marie Schmidt and Roger Anstruther. A determined young woman of twenty-five, Rose-Marie is considered a spinster by the inhabitants of the small German town of Jena where she lives with her father, the Professor. To their homes...
Cousin Rosamund
AuthorRebecca West
ISBN0860688291
Cousin Rosamund’ is the final, incomplete book of a series that was to tell the story of a century through the story of the lives of the Aubrey family and their circle.

The first book, 'The Fountain Overflows' was published in 1956; the second book, 'This Real Night' was published in 1984, a...
Miss Mole
AuthorE.H. Young
ISBN0385279752
Oddly, the word that springs to mind for this one is "charming." Ok. I really like E.H. Young; this is the fourth book of hers I've not only read but owned. All are set in the early 20th century, so there's always a cultural hump to get over, but this time I find the hump a little...different. The story concentrates...
The World My Wilderness
AuthorRose Macaulay
ISBN0860683400
This is Rose Macaulay’s penultimate novel and she had begun writing novels almost 50 years earlier. The backdrop of the novel is post-war London and the ruins caused by the Blitz. Macaulay is an interesting character in her own right; her family tree is fascinating and includes academics, abolitionists...
A View of the Harbour
AuthorElizabeth Taylor
ISBN1844083225
In the faded coastal village of Newby, everyone looks out for - and in on - each other, and beneath the deceptively sleepy exterior, passions run high. Beautiful divorcee Tory is painfully involved with her neighbour, Robert, while his wife Beth, Tory's best friend, is consumed by the worlds she creates...
The Crowded Street
AuthorWinifred Holtby
ISBN1903155665
Muriel, who believes that ‘men do as they like’ whereas women ‘wait to see what they will do’, lives in a town in Yorkshire waiting – for what? She tries to conform to the values of her snobbish, socially ambitious mother; she tries to be ‘attractive’ to men.

Throughout the description...
Look at Me
AuthorAnita Brookner
ISBN0140147454
Riveting. Even when a frivolous person and so-called friend, Alix, decides to betray our narrator, Frances, the latter is constitutionally incapable of perceiving the underhandedness. Frances hasn’t been prepared for duplicity and dissembling in life, of which Alix is the keenest exemplar....
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