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The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.

When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life.

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Splendid * Spectator *
It's a novel about ideas...as well as the sort of delicious and merciless emotions that can make people exuberant or desperate * The Atlantic *
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed -- Anita Brookner
Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians * Irish Times *
Miss Kennedy . . . finds herself well to the front among novelists, men or women, of today. Its theme is the clash between two incompatible worlds, and its solution is reached through tragedy * New York Times (1924) *

The Constant Nymph

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    A Paperback / softback by Margaret Kennedy

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage Classics
      Published 7 August 2014
      ISBN-13 9780099589747
      978-0099589747
      ISBN-10 0099589745

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.

      When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life.

      Trade Review
      Splendid * Spectator *
      It's a novel about ideas...as well as the sort of delicious and merciless emotions that can make people exuberant or desperate * The Atlantic *
      She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed -- Anita Brookner
      Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians * Irish Times *
      Miss Kennedy . . . finds herself well to the front among novelists, men or women, of today. Its theme is the clash between two incompatible worlds, and its solution is reached through tragedy * New York Times (1924) *

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