Lucinda Brayford
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A sweeping portrait of colonial privilege and quiet devastation, Lucinda Brayford chronicles the life of a beautiful Australian woman whose marriage into the English aristocracy promises everything and delivers something far more complicated. Set across two continents and spanning several decades of the early twentieth century, Martin Boyd's masterwork traces Lucinda's journey from the sunlit drawing rooms of Melbourne society to the cold grandeur of an English country house, where beneath the veneer of wealth and status, the soul is slowly extinguished. The novel unfolds as a meditation on class, identity, and the brutal compromises demanded of women who dare to possess both intelligence and feeling. Boyd writes with the cool, ironic precision of a novelist equally at home in the traditions of Henry James and the mordant social observation of Evelyn Waugh, yet his voice remains distinctly and poignantly Australian. Lucinda Brayford, first published in 1946, is widely regarded as one of the finest Australian novels of the twentieth century, illustrating with devastating clarity the spiritual cost of a life lived in deference to social expectation. Beneath its elegant surface lies a quietly radical question — what is left of a person when society has taken everything it wants?
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Hardback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A sweeping portrait of colonial privilege and quiet devastation, Lucinda Brayford chronicles the life of a beautiful Australian woman whose marriage into the English aristocracy promises everything and delivers something far more complicated. Set across two continents and spanning several decades of the early twentieth century, Martin Boyd's masterwork traces Lucinda's journey from the sunlit drawing rooms of Melbourne society to the cold grandeur of an English country house, where beneath the veneer of wealth and status, the soul is slowly extinguished. The novel unfolds as a meditation on class, identity, and the brutal compromises demanded of women who dare to possess both intelligence and feeling. Boyd writes with the cool, ironic precision of a novelist equally at home in the traditions of Henry James and the mordant social observation of Evelyn Waugh, yet his voice remains distinctly and poignantly Australian. Lucinda Brayford, first published in 1946, is widely regarded as one of the finest Australian novels of the twentieth century, illustrating with devastating clarity the spiritual cost of a life lived in deference to social expectation. Beneath its elegant surface lies a quietly radical question — what is left of a person when society has taken everything it wants?