Product Description: National bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best BookThe passionate, life-long love affair between two magicians of the written word. The Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen and the Canadian diplomat Charles Ritchie met at a christening in London, England, in 1941; shortly afterward they embarked on a love affair that lasted until her death in 1973...read more

Being a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group, Leonard Woolf was a formidable figure in his own right, first as a civil administrator in Ceylon, then as a writer, leading light of the Fabian society and publisher of TS Eliot, EM Forster, Robert Graves, Katherine Mansfield and of course Virginia Woolf.

Victoria Glendinning's first book, this is a portrait of a family and an era. Winnie Seebohm, who she portrays was the author's great aunt, one of the first at Newham. Though much loved, Winnie was stifled in her desire for life and died at the age of 22.