Elisabeth Russell Taylor

• Sep-1989
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• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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From the opening reference to embalming to the final sentence's ironical echo of the title, this stark work by English novelist Taylor ( Tomorrow ) is haunted by the trauma of lost parental love. Charlotte Sinclair has summoned her sister Antonia bac...

• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Opal, gamine and sensitive, has been married off by her father to an elderly business associate, Helmut Gressinger, and lives an encapsulated life of luxury in London. When Helmut takes her to Paris, she falls passionately in love with a young French...

• Mar-1996
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An English chef, encouraged by his ambitious wife to recreate the cuisine of the great French masters, diligently does so for years, until their London restaurant becomes famous. When, inexplicably, the wife persuades her husband to invent his own re...

• Aug-1997
• / Literary
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Elisabeth Russell Taylor is an Arts Council Writers Award winning author. She dissects our closest relationships to expose the violence that lies at the heart of intimacy. With unflinching precision, she describes the mundane cruelties of contemporar...

• Jan-1999
• / Historical
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• Jan-2014
• / General Fiction
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From award-winning writer Elisabeth Russell Taylor comes a dazzling new collection of short stories. Whether examining the unspoken deals brokered in every marriage, the inherent menace of daily exchanges or the secret lives of the unattached, each o...