The Constant Nymph

She would give herself to pain with a passionate readiness, seeing only its beauty, with the singleness of vision which is the glory and the curse of such natures. He wondered anxiously, and for the first time, what was to become of her" Teresa is the daughter of a brilliant bohemian composer, Albert Sanger, who with his "Circus" of precocious children, slovenly mistress, and assortment of hangers-on, lives in a rambling chalet high in the Austrian Alps. Thin, childish, green-eyed, with an indomitably eccentric taste in clothes, Tessa is "unbalanced, untaught and fatally warm-hearted". At fourteen she has already fallen in love with Lewis Dodd, a gifted composer like her father. Confidently, she awaits maturity (and Lewis). But this longed-for destiny is shattered by her father's sudden death: Lewis is drawn away bt Tessa's beautiful cousin Florence. However, neither his marriage to her nor Tessa's exile to an English boarding school can break the spell the gods have placed on Lewis and his nymph. Tessa reamains constant, her splendid heart all too ready for the rewards that love so inevitably brings.

COVER: Paperback

CONDITION: Pre-Loved

TYPE OF BOOK: Fiction

SUB-TYPE: Classics

ISBN: 9780860683544

LANGUAGE: English

SUGGESTED AGE LEVEL: Adult

AUTHOR'S NAME: Margaret Kennedy, Anita Brookner

NO OF PAGES: 352

PUBLISHER NAME: Published January 1st 1983 by Virago Press