The Ballad and the Source Paperback - 2015

Name: The Ballad and the Source: A Novel (The Rebecca Landon Novels)
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Author: Lehmann, Rosamond
ISBN: 9781504007757

by Rosamond Lehmann

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From the publisher

A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain's best-loved authors

Sibyl Jardine, the former best friend of Rebecca Landon's grandmother, has recently returned to the Priory, her home at the top of a hill. Rebecca is instantly drawn in by Sibyl's magnetic personality and blunt, shocking manner. Decades earlier, Sibyl had left her husband Charles for another man and, as a result, lost her daughter Ianthe. Now she is finally about to meet her three grandchildren, who will become an integral part of Rebecca's life as she journeys into adolescence.

At the heart of this extraordinary novel is the enigma that is Sibyl Jardine: Is she a saint or a sinner? Is she a duplicitous lover or a woman who has been unjustly punished? Played out in a series of conversations between Rebecca, Sibyl Jardine, Jardine's granddaughter Maisie, and a Cockney maid named Tilly, The Ballad and the Source is a tale of perception and memory, passion and betrayal, and the fearsome power of a mother's love.

Details

Title The Ballad and the Source
Author Rosamond Lehmann
Binding Paperback
Pages 358
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Open Road Media
Publication date 2015-07-21
ISBN 9781504007757 / 1504007751
Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
Dimensions 8 x 5.25 x 0.78 in (20.32 x 13.34 x 1.98 cm)
Themes
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born on the day of Queen Victoria's funeral, in Buckinghamshire, England, the second of four children. In 1927, a few years after graduating from the University of Cambridge, she published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to critical acclaim and instantaneous celebrity. Lehmann continued to write and publish between 1930 and 1976, penning works including The Weather in the Streets, The Ballad and the Source, and the short memoir The Swan in the Evening. Lehmann was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1982 and remains one of the most distinguished novelists of the twentieth century.