The Lily Hand And Other Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From one of Britain's most versatile and quietly commanding storytellers comes The Lily Hand and Other Stories, a collection that showcases Edith Pargeter's remarkable range across mood, character, and setting. Each story draws the reader into a world rendered with precision and humanity — whether charting the quiet dramas of ordinary lives, the weight of history pressing on the present, or the delicate tensions that simmer beneath the surface of human relationships. Pargeter, widely celebrated under her pen name Ellis Peters for the beloved Brother Cadfael chronicles, brings to this collection the same assured prose and moral intelligence that defines her finest work. Her writing is unhurried yet never languid, exact yet never cold — a rare balance that invites the reader to pause and sit with each story long after its final line. The Lily Hand and Other Stories stands as a testament to the enduring power of the short story form in the hands of a true master, and a reminder that Pargeter's literary legacy extends far beyond any single genre or pseudonym.
Author: Edith Pargeter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Heinemann: London
Genre: Fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
From one of Britain's most versatile and quietly commanding storytellers comes The Lily Hand and Other Stories, a collection that showcases Edith Pargeter's remarkable range across mood, character, and setting. Each story draws the reader into a world rendered with precision and humanity — whether charting the quiet dramas of ordinary lives, the weight of history pressing on the present, or the delicate tensions that simmer beneath the surface of human relationships. Pargeter, widely celebrated under her pen name Ellis Peters for the beloved Brother Cadfael chronicles, brings to this collection the same assured prose and moral intelligence that defines her finest work. Her writing is unhurried yet never languid, exact yet never cold — a rare balance that invites the reader to pause and sit with each story long after its final line. The Lily Hand and Other Stories stands as a testament to the enduring power of the short story form in the hands of a true master, and a reminder that Pargeter's literary legacy extends far beyond any single genre or pseudonym.