Dusty Answer (Flamingo Modern Classics) - Softcover

One of the best-loved classic English novels of the inter-war years, 'Dusty Answer' is Judith Earle’s story – her solitary childhood spent in the seclusion of her riverside house, her awkward, intense experiences at Cambridge rounded with passion and disillusionment, and her travels abroad with her elegant, socialite mother. Above all, this novel is about Judith’s consuming relationship with the Fyfe family – her cousins – who each fall in love with Judith, transforming her young womanhood.

“'Dusty Answer' captures the very best of adolescence, the part which we leave behind at our peril: namely, the sense that friendship and romantic relationships will always be the most crucial testing grounds for our standards of commitment and integrity. It will consume you entirely, transforming your whole inner life for the time it takes to read.”
JONATHAN COE, 'Sunday Times'

“The candour and wit of her observation, her capacity for evoking atmosphere, the lyrical, sensuous quality of her descriptive writing and her clear yet compassionate insight into individual psychology puts her immediately into the front rank of English writers.”
THE TIMES

“A true original, far in advance of most other female novelists, both among her contemporaries and those who came after, following, or rather stumbling, in her wake.”
ANITA BROOKNER, 'Spectator'