Imagined Corners

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Synopsis

Introduced by J.B. Pick.

Willa Muir was an acute and acerbic observer with an intimate knowledge of the Scottish middle-class conventions she describes. In Imagined Corners, her first novel, young Elizabeth Shand, newly married to the unstable but handsome Hector, finds herself in the social, intellectual and spiritual strait-jacket of small-town life early this century.

Into the growing complexity of these entangled relationships her sister-in-law and namesake returns from Italy, sophisticated and freshly widowed. Through her, Elizabeth rediscovers an intuitive desire to face life honestly and intelligently, and reassesses an enforced life of petty vanities and delusion against new possibilities of personal and sexual freedom.

Book details

Series:
Canongate Classics (Book 1)
Author:
Willa Muir
ISBN:
9781847677990
Related ISBNs:
9780862411404
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Pages:
301
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2022-11-26
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2011
Copyright by:
J. B. Pick, 1 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Literature and Fiction