INTRODUCED BY HILARY MANTELElizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth — Sarah Waters Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of — perhaps because of — its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book — an elderly lady, romanticising behind lace curtains? A mustachioed rogue? They were not expecting it to be the pale, serious teenage girl, sitting before them without a hint of irony in her soul. *’Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning-point in one’s own experience’ Elizabeth Bowen ‘No writer has described the English middle classes with more gently devastating accuracy’ Rebecca Abrams, Spectator
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