# Lettice & Victoria

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- Authors: [Susanna Johnston](https://www.bookquiver.com/susanna-johnston)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-12-01

## Description

This mischievous roman à clef revolves around the interactions of five main characters. Victoria, barely twenty, finds herself acting as amanuensis to Laurence, an elderly man of letters, now blind, who lives in a ravishing house by the sea in northern Italy. Soon after her arrival, she indulges in a heady night of passion with Edgar, a youthful Englishman. Their subsequent union introduces Edgar's pretentious mother Lettice, who is jealous and suspicious of her daughter-in-law's prettiness and her ability to amuse Lettice's intellectual friends. While Victoria struggles to adapt to her new surroundings, Lettice, in a bid to maintain her own social superiority, attempts to thwart her every move in hilarious fashion. Enter Archie, one of the inner circle, whose relationship with Victoria provokes a scandal that threatens to destroy her. Darkly funny and deeply insightful, Lettice & Victoria is not just a love story with a fanciful and flawed female protagonist, but a wonderful portrait of English society.

## Editions

### Lettice & Victoria

- Publisher: arcadia_parent_imprint
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-19-0980-723-5
- Published: 2013-12-01
- Language: en_GB

### Lettice & Victoria

- Publisher: arcadia_parent_imprint
- ISBN: 978-19-0980-722-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2013-12-01
- Language: en_GB