Publisher's Synopsis
Love invites the most passionate of statements. From the breathtaking excitment of first love, the comfort and support of happy fulfilled love to the pain and anguish of jealousy, faithlessness and parting, Elizabeth Jane Howard has drawn upon literary gems to illustrate love's many incarnations.
Gathered together here are sublime examples of passion and emotion from some of the world's finest writers, including Jne Austen, John Betjeman, Thomas Hardy, Ernest Hemingway and Philip Larkin.
'A charming book' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Telegraph
'First love, unrequited love, adulterous love - they're all here ... in this glorious anthology of prose and poetry' Val Hennessy, Woman's Journal
