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Fanny Burney would not approve of some of my chapters, but it was my affection for the novels of her school, in which the heroine goes through all kinds of distresses but emerges in a sweeping triumph at the end, that made me long to try my hand at the same theme—treating it, however, in our down-to-earth twentieth-century way.This brilliant homage to the 19th century novel begins with two young women—Lucy, sturdy and unflappable, and Daisy, charming but self-interested—performing with a theatre company in Egypt after World War I. The show closes, and Daisy stays on with a well-to-do businessman while Lucy eagerly plans her return to England. But then she falls seriously ill, then in debt to Daisy's lover. She finds that Daisy, anxious not to alienate her meal ticket, has rashly promised that Lucy will remain in Egypt and work for him until he's repaid.Thus in Egypt they remain, over the course of nearly 20 years, while Moore's intricate, lovely...

Author

Doris Langley Moore & Brian Flynn

Publisher

Dean Street Press

Published

2019

Language

EN