Lucinda Brayford
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Lucinda Brayford is a sweeping, multi-generational saga that traces the life of its luminous protagonist from the sun-drenched colonial society of late nineteenth-century Australia to the drawing rooms and moral complexities of twentieth-century England. Lucinda herself is a woman of rare beauty and quiet resilience, caught between the world she was born into and the one she marries into — navigating class, desire, betrayal, and loss across decades of tumultuous social change. Martin Boyd constructs her story with the precision of a social anatomist and the tenderness of a poet, rendering the decline of an Anglo-Australian aristocratic world with both elegiac beauty and sharp irony. Boyd's prose carries the hallmarks of a writer firmly in the tradition of Henry James and Evelyn Waugh — civilised, ironic, and alive to the hypocrisies concealed beneath polished surfaces. First published in 1946, Lucinda Brayford is widely regarded as Boyd's masterpiece and a cornerstone of Australian literature, illuminating how inherited privilege and personal integrity so rarely coexist without cost. For readers who have yet to encounter Boyd's remarkable heroine, this novel promises an experience both deeply humane and quietly devastating.
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1948, E. P. Dutton & Company, Inc.
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Lucinda Brayford is a sweeping, multi-generational saga that traces the life of its luminous protagonist from the sun-drenched colonial society of late nineteenth-century Australia to the drawing rooms and moral complexities of twentieth-century England. Lucinda herself is a woman of rare beauty and quiet resilience, caught between the world she was born into and the one she marries into — navigating class, desire, betrayal, and loss across decades of tumultuous social change. Martin Boyd constructs her story with the precision of a social anatomist and the tenderness of a poet, rendering the decline of an Anglo-Australian aristocratic world with both elegiac beauty and sharp irony. Boyd's prose carries the hallmarks of a writer firmly in the tradition of Henry James and Evelyn Waugh — civilised, ironic, and alive to the hypocrisies concealed beneath polished surfaces. First published in 1946, Lucinda Brayford is widely regarded as Boyd's masterpiece and a cornerstone of Australian literature, illuminating how inherited privilege and personal integrity so rarely coexist without cost. For readers who have yet to encounter Boyd's remarkable heroine, this novel promises an experience both deeply humane and quietly devastating.