author
Rosamond Lehmann
1901–1990
Known for beautifully observant fiction about young women, love, and the complicated passage into adult life, this English novelist first drew wide attention with Dusty Answer in 1927. Her books combine emotional honesty with a sharp feel for memory, family, and the inner lives people rarely say out loud.
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Dusty answer
by Rosamond Lehmann
Elämänhurman häipyessä
by Rosamond Lehmann
About the author
Born in Buckinghamshire in 1901, Rosamond Lehmann grew up in a literary family and became one of the notable English novelists of the 20th century. She studied at Cambridge and published her first novel, Dusty Answer, in 1927; it caused a stir and quickly established her as a fresh, distinctive voice.
Lehmann became known for sensitive, psychologically alert writing about women on the edge of change—especially adolescence, desire, loss, and the pressures of family and society. Along with Dusty Answer, her best-known works include Invitation to the Waltz, The Weather in the Streets, and The Ballad and the Source.
She was also a translator, and her life connected her to major literary circles of her time, including the Bloomsbury world. Rosamond Lehmann died in London on March 12, 1990, but her novels are still admired for their intimacy, emotional precision, and deep sympathy for unsettled hearts.