DIFFERENT SOUND (MID CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS) (HB)

These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked, and new freedoms are embraced. Contains stories by: Frances Bellerby, Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du Maurier, Diana Gardner, Stella Gibbons, Inez Holden, Attia Hosain, by Elizabeth Jane Howard, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth Taylor and Sylvia Townsend Warner.