{"product_id":"2026100009391-secondhand-lucinda-brayford","title":"Lucinda Brayford","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: price clipped dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew novels capture the sweep of an entire civilisation with such devastating elegance as Martin Boyd's Lucinda Brayford — a work that chronicles three generations of an Anglo-Australian family from the sunlit drawing rooms of colonial Melbourne to the scarred landscapes of post-war Europe. At the heart of the novel stands Lucinda herself, a woman of rare beauty and quiet moral complexity, whose life traces the arc of a class in slow, irreversible decline. Boyd presents her story with the measured precision of a social anatomist, dissecting the rituals of privilege, the tyranny of expectation, and the quiet tragedies that accumulate beneath a veneer of propriety.\n\nWritten with the sensibility of a latter-day Henry James and the cultural authority of an author who straddles two worlds, Lucinda Brayford stands as one of the great, unjustly overlooked achievements of twentieth-century Australian literature. Boyd illustrates the corrosive tension between inherited tradition and the modern world with a prose style at once luminous and restrained, drawing the reader into a world where every social gesture carries the weight of consequence. Originally published in 1946 and later championed as a landmark of Australian fiction, this is a novel that rewards patient, discerning readers — leaving one to wonder whether Lucinda's quiet tragedy is ultimately a personal failing, or an indictment of the world that shaped her.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203124076763,"sku":"2026100009391-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/608d5d6c-289f-4a17-8439-71786124a828.png?v=1788144658","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009391-secondhand-lucinda-brayford","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}