You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor

7 best books like You'll Enjoy It When You Get There: The Selected Stories of Elizabeth Taylor (Elizabeth Taylor): Spring, Very Nice, The Driver's Seat, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Don't Look Now, Mr Skeffington, Every Eye

Spring
AuthorAli Smith
ISBN0241207053
From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet

Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives,...
Very Nice
AuthorMarcy Dermansky
ISBN0525655638
A brilliantly funny novel of money, sex, race, and bad behavior in the post-Obama era, featuring a wealthy Connecticut divorcée, her college-age daughter, and the famous American novelist who is seduced by them both.

Rachel Klein never meant to kiss her creative writing professor, but...
The Driver's Seat
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0141188340
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
AuthorWinifred Watson
Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew...
Don't Look Now
AuthorDaphne du Maurier
ISBN1590172884
An NYRB Original
Daphne du Maurier wrote some of the most compelling and creepy novels of the twentieth century. In books like Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though...
AuthorElizabeth von Arnim
ISBN1853816779
Approaching the watershed of her fiftieth birthday, Fanny, having long ago divorced Mr. Skeffington and dismissed him from her thoughts, is surprised to find herself thinking of him. While attempting to understand this unwelcome invasion, she meets, through a series of coincidences and deliberate...
AuthorIsobel English
ISBN1574231995
This book is not a love letter, -- not to you, not to anyone.

But I love this book. I absolutely adore it, -- not just the content but the smallness of the book, the feel of it in my hands. The paper, like the prose, is delicate and crisp. You slip into Hatty's skin the way one slips into a white, cotton...
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