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The Middle Mist
by Mary Renault

Publisher: Popular Library
New York, NY, USA

Year


1972       
first published in UK as "The Friendly Young Ladies": 1943

Cover / size: paperback / h 17.5 * w 10.5 cm / 288 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: n/a

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Arbery Ref:   000552


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Renault: The Middle Mist






Condition: Good

Cover: worn at edges, long creases to back corners. Spine unbroken. Short ink inscription on pre-title page. Pages yellowing but otherwise unmarked.


Plot / Content:
"Set mainly on a Thames houseboat, it is the story of two beautiful and complex women - lovers for five years - whose lives are shattered by the suddent arrival of a dangerously innocent young girl and a seductive young man. Compassionate, wise and deeply moving, The Middle Mist is vintage Renault - a great story-teller's searching look into the treacherous depths of sexual love."

(from the cover)


Background / Biography:
Mary Renault (4 September 1905 – 13 December 1983) born Eileen Mary Challans, was a lesbian English writer best known for her [gay] historical novels set in Ancient Greece. More on Wikipedia

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"Very quietly and carefully, hardly moving her thin young neck and round shoulders, Elsie looked round the room first at the french windows into the garden, then at the door, measuring distances. Her calculations were instinctive, like those of a mouse; she had been making them since she could crawl. There was hardly any need to look this time; the way to the door lay flat across her father's line of vision. He was saying, 'I should have supposed it was obvious to the meanest intelligence - almost anywhere, in fact, outside this household -' "

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