Надоела банальщина? Хочется отключить мозг и наслаждаться безумием?

I will begin with an old story, which I have already told repeatedly in relation to this novel, but it is so good that it is not a sin and repeat. The fact is that for this novel Stella Gibbons received the English version of the French Prix Femina (Femina Vie Heureuse Prize), which in previous years was presented, for example, to E.M. Forster and Virginia Wolfe. When she learned that Gibbons had received the prize, Wolf wrote to her friend Elizabeth Bowen (Wolf had hoped that it would be Bowen who would receive the prize)...