# A Wreath of Roses

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- Authors: [Elizabeth Taylor](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-taylor)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2011-09-29

## Description

INTRODUCED BY HELEN DUNMORE Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel . . . She writes with a sensuous richness of language that draws the reader down the most shadowy paths . . . Extremely beguiling. Taylor makes the living moment present, touchable, disturbing, enchanting - Helen Dunmore Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private absorptions - Frances with her painting and Liz with her baby - seem to exclude her from the gossipy intimacies of previous summers. Anxious that she will remain encased in her solitary life as a school secretary, and perhaps to spite of her friends, Camilla steps into an unlikely liaison with Richard Elton, a handsome, assured - and dangerous - liar. Elizabeth Taylor's darkest novel is a skillful exploration of the danger we'll go to to avoid loneliness. Taylor is increasingly recognised as one of the best writers of the twentieth century, and this little-known novel displays her range admirably.

## Editions

### A Wreath of Roses

- Publisher: virago
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-07-4813-164-8
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB