Stone Walls
by Catherine Heath
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When Stone Walls was published in 1973, it received enthusiasic reviews, most of which drew attention to its cool observation", a quality that some reviewers complacently noticed as "very English". ... the pattern of the right and the unattainable good is matched against a threatening disorder. This characteristic and invisible signature is written throughout her work. ... In this fine novel, show more constructed and decorated with skill, contrasting themes and paradoxes and an entertaining variety of characterization are rendered in a lively and graceful prose. show less
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- People/Characters
- Martha Lang; Patrick Burton; Henry Rossiter
- Important places
- Tilbrook House, Somerset, England, UK; Somerset, England, UK
- First words
- The silence that midsummer heat imposes on a countryside had succeeded the early chorus of birds; but the water meadows were still wet with dew when the two black furniture-vans lumbered across the bridge, just clearing the s... (show all)tone balustrade on either side.
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- Dr Elias was often puzzled to know what intelligent non-academic people discussed when they met on occasions when philosophic argument was clearly inapposite, for with recent publications, college administration, and editoria... (show all)l problems not among possible topics of conversation, it seemed to her that only gardening remained.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Outside twilight gathered, and upstairs, in a small closet off Lady Dorothy's room, a line of dust from an unsuspected infestation of furniture beetle trickled silently to the floor.
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