# Angel

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- Book: [Angel](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-taylor/angel) ([Angel.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-taylor/angel.md))
- Authors: [Elizabeth Taylor](https://www.bookquiver.com/elizabeth-taylor)
- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-4408-307-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2017-09-14
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTEL Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth - Sarah Waters Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . . After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of - perhaps because of - its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book - an elderly lady, romanticising behind lace curtains? A mustachioed rogue? They were not expecting it to be the pale, serious teenage girl, sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul. * 'Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one's own experience' Elizabeth Bowen 'No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy' Rebecca Abrams, Spectator