The Beautiful Visit Author:Elizabeth Jane Howard The award winning novel about a young girl's growing to maturity in the years before women got the vote! — For a shy, sixteen-year-old girl, Christmas with the Lancing family was to be her first, exhilarating taste of growing up. — There's delightful Lacy, Gerald (very good at ice skating), Elspeth (interested in natural history, especially catepi... more »llars), Deborah (with her hair up, almost overwhelmingly sophisticated), and then there's Rupert, recently down from Cambridge, living a bohemian existence in London and so terrifyingly handsome that, well... he must be teasing her?
All the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence is captured in Howard's beautifully observed story of a young girl growing up in the years around the First World War.« less