A01=Brigid Brophy
Author_Brigid Brophy
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Product details
- ISBN 9780571304660
- Weight: 170g
- Dimensions: 126 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Aug 2013
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The tweedy Miss Hetty Braid worships the lovely but selfish Miss Antonia Mount, her co-proprietor at the most exclusive finishing school on the French Riviera. The girls they teach are quite remarkable, though hardly in the sense of academic distinction. But trouble looms when Antonia announces that 'Royalty is coming.' The great day arrives, and though at first things go tolerably well, disaster springs from good intentions.
This Faber Finds edition includes a 1987 introduction by Brigid Brophy and a new preface by Sir Peter Stothard.
'A wicked little entertainment... plaubly not meant for the moralists or naive.' Evening Standard
'An outrageously indelicate joke made in beautifully mannered prose.' Daily Herald
'Waspish and witty.' TLS
Brigid Brophy (1929-1995) was a prize-winning British novelist, essayist, critic and political campaigner, championing gay marriage, pacifism, vegetarianism, prison reform and Public Lending Right. Her celebrated debut novel, Hackenfeller's Ape, was published in 1953. It was followed by many other acclaimed novels including The King of a Rainy Country, Flesh, The Finishing Touch, In Transit, and The Snow Ball (which Faber are reissuing with a new foreword by Eley Williams), as well as critical studies of Mozart, Aubrey Beardsley and Ronald Firbank, among other subjects. Brophy's marriage to art historian Michael Levey encompassed a thirteen-year relationship with Iris Murdoch. She died in 1995.
