Lady Author:Thomas Tryon A novel suffused with nostalgia, as it recreates the texture of life in an American small town and brings back our own lost memories of the nineteen-thirties and -forties. It is a heart piercing evocation of a bittersweet alliance with all its thorny ambiguities between a charming woman and an adoring young boy. It holds the reader in a delica... more »tely taunting suspense as it gradually reveals the unimaginable truth about its lovely and elusive heroine. And above all it gives us Lady« less
This book is filled with the nostalgia of a family and a mysterious "Lady" who lives across the park. It's a wonderful look back in time and has an ending that is quite the surprise!
"The novel re-creates the texture of life in an American small town and brings back our own lost memories of the nineteen-thirties and -forties. It is a heart piercing evocation of a bittersweet alliance, with all its thorny ambiguities, between a charming woman and an adoring young boy. It holds readers in a delicately tautening suspense as it gradually reveals the unimaginable truth about its lovely-and elusive-heroine. And about all, it gives us Lady."