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A compass error
Author(s): Sybille Bedford (Author)
- Publisher: Collins
- Publication Date: 1 Jan. 1968
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 224 pages
- ISBN-10: B0000COCVA
Book Description
‘Mrs Bedford writes rarely in both senses of the word and a new book from her is a rare delight’ wrote the Scotsman reviewing her last novel, A Favourite of the Gods, to which A Compass Error is related both in its themes and its characters. Flavia, eclipsed in the first book by her mother, the superb and accomplished Constanza, takes the centre of the stage with her simplicity, her directness, and the inexhaustible response of youth to the wonders and the miseries of the world. It is the period of the early thirties when political barbarism is beginning to darken the bright hopes embodied in the League of Nations. Flavia, on her own in the South of France, is certain that she can win a place at Oxford, become a don, write great books and put the world to rights. But even in a few weeks of that halcyon summer, evoked with all Sybille Bedford’s mastery of sight and touch and taste and heightened by first love, she learns that the world, no less than herself, is not what she has taken it to be.
