Rosamond Lehmann

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1975
  • Latest Book:
    June 2018
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Dusty answer

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    Lehmann's first novel, “Dusty Answer,” published in 1927 and public domain in the US, delves into a young woman's life and mind in an emotional coming-of-age story. It also explores the then taboo theme of homosexuality. Judith Earle grows up in ...

  • The Weather in the Streets

    In 1930s England, an encounter on a train leads to an illicit affair, in this novel of “spare, poetic prose” by the author of Invitation to the Waltz (Joyce Carol Oates).   Just ten years ago, Olivia Curtis attended her first dance. Now she ...

  • The Echoing Grove

    Two sisters fall for the same man in this New York Times"bestselling novel of WWII-era England by an “immensely readable” author (Elizabeth Jane Howard). Rickie Masters is married to Madeleine, who is sitting out the war in the country with the...

  • Swan in the Evening

    Rosamond Lehmann, one of the most distinguished British writers of this century, published eight acclaimed works of fiction. Her only autobiographical work, The Swan in the Evening, recreated first the child she was and the experiences that made her ...

  • The Gipsy's Baby

    This collection of stories by one of Britain's most beloved novelists depicts domestic life during World War II as seen through the eyes of both children and adults In "The Red-haired Miss Daintreys," four six-foot-tall sisters capture the imagin...

  • Invitation to the Waltz

    Rosamond Lehmann’s enduring classic, told from the point of view of its seventeen-year-old heroine, who has been invited to her first dance   Today is Olivia Curtis’s seventeenth birthday. In exactly one week, she will attend her first...

  • A Note In Music

    A seductive new stranger becomes the symbol of everything two married women secretly long for in this richly imagined novel by one of the most distinguished writers of the twentieth century Thirty-four-year-old Grace Fairfax lives a dull, conventiona...

  • Sea-Grape Tree

    A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann's classic "The Ballad and the Source" The year is 1933. After a heart-wrenching betrayal by her married lover, Rebecca Landon leaves London for a t...

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  • The Ballad and the Source

    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 hom...

  • The Olivia Curtis Novels

    Ten years separate these two poignant novels featuring the same young woman, by the New York Times"bestselling “novelist in the grand tradition” (Anita Brookner).   British novelist Rosamond Lehmann “has always written brilliantly of wom...

  • The Rebecca Landon Novels

    The New York Times"bestselling “masterpiece” and its haunting sequel, from a British novelist of “visceral power” (Jonathan Coe, The Guardian).   “A novelist in the grand tradition,” New York Times"bestselling author Rosamond Leh...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosamond Lehmann has published 12 books.

Rosamond Lehmann does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Olivia Curtis Novels, was published in June 2018.

The first book by Rosamond Lehmann, Dusty answer, was published in January 1975.

No. Rosamond Lehmann does not write books in series.
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