Book Society

LC 's Fenny (a Book Society choice, and sometimes called her finest novel), was set in or near Florence during the Second World War and the years just before and after it.

This was the first book LR published with the new firm of Arthur Barker in London. She took some trouble to disguise identities, since Barker was worried about potential libel actions. The Book Society backed...

She wrote it in 1946, and revised it in a state of dissatisfaction with her first version. Chatto and Windus were enthusiastic about it and offered her an advance of £150 and a royalty of...

Colonel and Mrs Williams , the owners of Parciau, were far from pleased at finding themselves and their lives portrayed in fiction. The novel, however, was again a Book Society Choice. It was...

The volume was a Book Society recommendation.Roger Fulford , reviewing it for the Times Literary Supplement, situated it among a crowd of works looking back from difficult times to an easier and...

This novel was a Book Society choice (OM 's third), but was badly reviewed by Nancy Spain and Viola Garvin .

They Were Sisters too became a Book Society Choice. Sales before publication day passed 32,000, and the editor of Woman's Magazine said it was of course a masterpiece.DW was offered by Gaumont-British

The Ginger Griffin was a Book Society choice, as were three later novels by AB .

This enormously successful was also well reviewed. It was a Book Society Choice, and earned NM over £7,000 in the first six months, funding her move from England to Paris. After its success on...

Its publication, however, was unmarked by any major review. It was the first novel by DW since her earliest of all not to be at least a Book Society Recommendation, if not a Choice. DW

Love in a Cold Climate enjoyed great popularity. It was the first novel to be simultaneously chosen as Book of the Month by the Book Society , the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard.

This time The Spectator, pursuing the line of excessive modernist influence, called EHY a thicker-skinned Virginia Woolf . . . but hardly less bogged in the undifferentiated welter of phenomenal experience. This novel...

The novel was a Book Society choice, and received accolades from reviewers for its brilliantly successful attack on . . . the spiritual and physical relationship of married life.John Betjeman called it...

The sales of this second novel nearly doubled those of Pym's first: Excellent Women sold 5,477 copies in the two months to June 1952, while Some Tame Gazelle sold only 3,722 in the thirteen years...

Diary of a Provincial Lady received positive reviews, though some critics also drew attention to its limitations. Henry Seidel Canby praised EMD in The Saturday Review of Literature as one of the really skilful novelists...