The Weather In The Streets

<p><b>ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BRITISH WRITERS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY</b><br><b><br>'With brilliant dialogue and intense passages of elation and despair, <i>The Weather in the Streets</i> takes you on the rollercoaster of their relationship' ESTHER FREUD, <i>SUNDAY TELEGRAPH</i></b><br><b><br>'Lehmann legitimised a type of writing that took on deep personal themes' ENGLISH PEN<br><br></b><b>'The first writer to filter her stories through a woman's feelings & perceptions' ANITA BROOKNER</b><br><br>Taking up where <i>Invitation to the Waltz</i> left off, <i>The Weather in the Streets </i>shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and apparently not much wiser. A chance encounter on a train with a man who enchanted her as a teenager leads to a forbidden love affair and a new world of secret meetings, brief phone calls and snatched liaisons in anonymous hotel rooms.<br><br>Years ahead of its time when first published, this subtle and powerful novel shocked even the most stalwart Lehmann fans with its searing honesty and passionate portrayal of clandestine love.</p>