Celia

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Virago, 1990 - Fiction - 414 pages
This is a portrait of marriage and disillusionment. Celia is tired of marital life. Years ago she fell in love with someone else and this memory sustains her. Now, she stands aside while her relatives - themselves caught up in ill-suited marriages - prey on one another's misdemeanours.

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About the author (1990)

Emily Hilda Young (1880-1949) was born in Northumberland, the daughter of a ship-broker. She was educated at Gateshead High School and Penrhos College, Colwyn Bay, Wales. In 1902, after her marriage to solicitor, J.A.H. Daniell, she went to live in Bristol, which was to become the setting of most of her novels.

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