{"product_id":"a-green-equinox-9781946022684","title":"A Green Equinox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 1973 Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eA Green Equinox \u003c\/i\u003eis a beguilingly Rococo \"study of love, considered in turn as companionship, sickness and mystic devotion . . . a book whose unusual infatuations are well worth lingering over, and puzzling out\" (Russell Davies, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHero Kinoull is an antiquarian bookseller whose sedate life in the picturesque English town of Beaudesert is turned upside down between the spring and autumn equinoxes of a single year. First her quiet but forbidden liaison with Hugh Shafto, the curator of the country's finest collection of Rococo art, comes to an apupt halt when she develops an adoration for his straight-talking, do-gooding wife Belle. But this relationship leads to other, even more unexpected feelings for Belle's widowed mother-in-law, the majestic Kate Shafto, who spends her days tending her garden and sailing her handmade boats in the waters of the miniature archipelago she's constructed in a disused gravel-pit.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Published two years after Elizabeth Mavor's most famous work, \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of Llangollen\u003c\/i\u003e--a biography of two eighteenth-century Irish gentlewomen who scandalized their families by eloping to Wales, where they lived together on their own terms--\u003ci\u003eA Green Equinox\u003c\/i\u003e is itself an intrepid exploration of gender, female sexuality, and passion: romantic, carnal, and cerepal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elizabeth Mavor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McNally Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 4.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946022684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMavor, Elizabeth:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford, where she was reputedly the first woman to edit the university magazine, \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Mavor\u003c\/b\u003e (1927-2013) was the author of five novels and numerous works of nonfiction. Drawn to the lives of women who flouted convention, her most celebrated works include two historical biographies: \u003ci\u003eThe Virgin Mistress: A Study in Survival \u003c\/i\u003e(1964), about Elizabeth Pierrepont, Duchess of Kingston, an English courtesan famous for her adventurous lifestyle; and \u003ci\u003eThe Ladies of Langollen \u003c\/i\u003e(1971), the story of cross-dressing aristocratic companions Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby. Mavor was married to the cartoonist and illustrator Haro Hodson, with whom she had two sons.","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Elizabeth Mavor \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47733816000669,"sku":"9781946022684","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_40bf4db2-6d37-416e-afde-9f49ecc5b07a.jpg?v=1773736387","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/a-green-equinox-9781946022684","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}