Margaret Kennedy

La ninfa constante tiene como protagonista a los Sanger, una compleja familia a cuyo frente está un padre músico y compositor, completamente embebido en su propia obra y partidario de una educación antiautoritaria. Su muerte provocara el choque de su descendencia con las normas sociales. Esta fue una novela rompedora y muy popular, cuando se publico en 1926. De hecho, fue uno de los mayores best-sellers del siglo. De ella se han hechos versiones teatrales y cinematograficas asi como incontables traducciones. Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) se inscribe en la gran tradicion britanica de las sagas en que la mujer tiene un rol predominante, y que tuvieron su edad dorada con los novelistas mayores del siglo XIX. Esta novela le dio el renombre universal.

La festa és un llibre de misteri clàssic summament original que reuneix tots els elements del gènere en una faula obscura i enginyosa inspirada en els Set Pecats Capitals, i que recorda a les millors

Lorsque Betsy Canning, à trente-sept ans, constate que malgré sa richesse, sa confortable maison à Londres, sa maison de vacances au pays de Galles et ses trois beaux enfants, le bonheur lui échappe,

This summery rediscovered gem will make you nostalgic for 1940s seaside holidays: a Cornish hotel is mysteriously buried by a landslide, but what bought its eccentric guests together?'Tense, touching, human, dire, and funny, The Feast is a feast indeed.' Elizabeth Bowen Cornwall, Midsummer 1947.

Lorsque Betsy Canning, à trente-sept ans, constate que malgré sa richesse, sa confortable maison à Londres, sa maison de vacances au pays de Galles et ses trois beaux enfants, le bonheur lui échappe,

Cornouailles, 1947. Comme tous les étés, le révérend Seddon rend visite au père Bott. Hélas, son ami n’a pas de temps à lui accorder cette année, car il doit écrire une oraison funèbre : l’hôtel de P

La festa és un llibre de misteri clàssic summament original que reuneix tots els elements del gènere en una faula obscura i enginyosa inspirada en els Set Pecats Capitals, i que recorda a les millors

Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. There she encounters her childhood friends, the Challoners, returned to the island of their birth to claim their heritage. When another stray arrives: the unattractive, foolish Selwyn Potter, Kate is irritated. But under the spell of this strange and beautiful island both visitors find themselves, and each other, cast in a new light.

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his Circus of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life. But fourteen-year-old Teresa is already deeply in love: for her, the outside world holds nothing but tragedy.

Romilly Brandon was heir to a fortune and the handsomest and liveliest young man in the county. But in his twenty-first year, the pretty daughter of the local parson, Jenny Newbolt broke his heart, and he left to live a dissipated life in London. Returning years later, Romily finds many surprises - his one-time sweetheart grown old and withered, and in possession of a great secret that shakes him to his core. When Romily finally learns the truth, is it too late to atone?

A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried. But through the pieced-together artefacts from the past, a fuller picture emerges of a man torn between two personalities - Miles, serious, studious and penniless, and Pronto, flirt, political mover and eternal extra man. Miles longs to dispose of his disreputable alter ego, but that way lies calamity...

The Oracles was the twelfth novel published by Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) and its titular subjects are the members of a group of provincial intellectuals who happen upon what seems to them a piece of stunningly advanced modern sculpture. Possibly they are not to be blamed for failing to see that it is, in fact, only a commonplace garden chair that has been struck by lightning and twisted radically out of shape. However, under a delusion, The Oracles endeavour to force their fellow townsmen to purchase the work with public money. This comedy of suspense, tension and confusion presents yet another splendid demonstration of Margaret Kennedys remarkable storytelling gift.

Rebuscando entre papeles para entretenerse durante una convalecencia, un caballero victoriano da con las memorias de un olvidado personaje de la época de la Regencia, que fue amigo de un antepasado suyo. Este personaje, modesto hijo de un clerigo que llego a ser parlamentario y ejercer cargos politicos, presenta la peculiaridad de tener una identidad desdoblada. Por un lado esta Miles Lufton, amante de la vida familiar, convencido de que la sociedad debe contribuir a la felicidad, defensor de los indefensos y capaz de pasar una hora entera escuchando a un ruiseñor. Por otro, un tipo a quien llaman Pronto, un arribista que solo piensa en su ascenso social, que cree que las emociones son un poquitin vulgares pero que sabe como despertar en su provecho el sentimentalismo de la alta sociedad: hace por ejemplo cumplidos antes del desayuno. Sin embargo, ¿hasta que punto son distintos Miles y Pronto? ¿Tal vez uno es la coartada del otro? En cualquier caso, este ser dual vive, progresa y se desencanta en un mundo que es el de las novelas de Jane Austen casas parroquiales, grandes fincas campestres, modestas viviendas de arrendatarios, ricos salones de Londres y tambien el de sus personajes: terratenientes ociosos, damas crueles, amigos leales, astutas consejeras y parientes pobres que anhelan una vida independiente. Ahi conocera el amor y la decepcion. "Troy Chimneys" (1953) es una novela originalisima en la que Margaret Kennedy consigue introducir con inteligencia una mentalidad contemporanea en un pasado en el que, no menos que en el presente, el triunfo se mide a costa de los deseos mas intimos.

Au lendemain d’un violent orage, la petite ville de Summersdown, sur le canal de Bristol, semble avoir dévié de son axe. À commencer par la banale chaise de jardin qui, frappée par la foudre et dislo

Melissa Hallam et Lucy Carmichael se rencontrent, étudiantes, à Oxford, et se lient d’une amitié complice et joyeuse. Ensemble, elles forment un duo redoutable face aux garçons, car le mariage reste

Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark. Beautiful, young and carefully brought up, Agatha knows she is securing a perfect and luxurious future in marrying handsome John Clewer and becoming Mistress of Lyndon, and she soon becomes the perfect country house hostess. But when Gerald reappears and war in Europe disturbs the sheltered comfort of Lyndon forever, Agatha is once again haunted by the idea of a different life.

According to a sensational West End play, the Victorian childrens writer, Dorothea Harding, was no dowdy maiden aunt, but the passionate participant in a torrid, tragic romance. It is the task of Roy Collins to turn the play into an equally popular film. Dorotheas descendents have only weak objections to the misuse of their relations private past - they need money more than dignity. But Roy has misgivings, and when a set of revealing letters are discovered, he begins to feel that the truth might be more important than the story.

Betsy Canning is dissatisfied with life. She has always taken pains to be healthy, popular and well-treated, but despite her wealth, her comfortable homes and beautiful children, happiness eludes her. The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to Alec, and a neat, civilised divorce seems the perfect solution. But talk of divorce sparks interference from family and friends, and soon public opinion tears into the fragile fabric of family life and private desire. Alec and Betsys marriage will not be the only casualty, and in this newly complicated world, happiness is more elusive than ever.

She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety. Adored by critics and pursued by women, hes the darling of the literary scene. But his public personae is exactly that a personae and he works exhaustedly day and night to portray the person the public expect him to be. One weekend he attends a party at a country house alongside the most important publishers and writers of the time. Its an opportunity, of course, to meet interesting women. But over the course of the weekend he finds himself scorned by one, and unexpectedly profoundly understood by another, and his values and everything hes held to be important abruptly come into question.