School For Love
Olivia Manning
  • Published: 15 April 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099416081
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $44.99

School For Love

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From the most considerable of our women novelists a compelling portrait of a relationship between a young man and a matriarch.

Orphaned, friendless and bewildered, young Felix Latimer comes to war-time Jerusalem to lodge with Miss Bohun, one of the most redoubtable (and ridiculous) of comic horrors in English fiction.
  • Published: 15 April 2001
  • ISBN: 9780099416081
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $44.99
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About the author

Olivia Manning

Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Smith, a British Council lecturer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.

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The Great Fortune
Friends And Heroes
The Spoilt City
Doves Of Venus
The Rain Forest
A Romantic Hero
The Balkan Trilogy
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Praise for School For Love

Here is a woman of unfathomable depths of meanness and cunning -- a triumph of portraiture, compassionate, witty and assured.

Time and Tide

Distinctly out of the ordinary, School for Love shows remarkable qualities of force and originality.

Times Literary Supplement

"Deep, sharp and narrow." That is a phrase which has been applied to some of the finest mathematical analysts: I should like to borrow it to describe Olivia Manning -- This is a remarkable book.

C. P. Snow

In common with the best writers, Olivia Manning has, besides wit, a sympathetic heart and a barometer-like sensitivity to the vagaries of human behaviour

Birmingham Post