by Elizabeth Taylor · Virago Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844083220
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«A View of the Harbour» is Elizabeth Taylor's novel published by Virago Press in paperback (320 pages, in English).
After the war, Bertram, a retired naval officer, arrives at a fishing village intending to paint, but his curiosity stirs up the lives of his neighbours: Tory is having an affair with the local doctor, married to her best friend Beth, who writes romantic novels unaware of what is happening beside her. A story about love, loss and appearances in postwar England.
Part of the Virago Modern Classics collection; 2006 edition with an introduction by Sarah Waters.
For readers of literary and romantic fiction who enjoy mid-twentieth-century English narrative; Anne Tyler's quote links it with Jane Austen and Barbara Pym.
Elizabeth Taylor was an English novelist and short-story writer. Kingsley Amis described her as "one of the best English novelists born in this century". Antonia Fraser called her "one of the most underrated writers of the 20th century", while Hilary Mantel said she was "deft, accomplished and somewhat underrated". Her 1971 novel Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont was shortlisted for The Booker Prize.
