A Very Great Profession Category_Grey Books/Poetry ” The Bookman called it

” The Bookman called it ‘a major work of art… one is in the hands of a master” and the Observer “an extraordinary novel” and “an unusual and distinguished piece of work

Set in small-town New England

and this was something that – unfortunately – only the better-off could do

‘It is the quintessence of experiences

A Very Great Profession Category_Grey Books/Poetry ” The Bookman called it408pp ISBN 9781903155684 Written by Nicola Beauman, the founder of Persephone Books, and first published in 1983, we hope that readers will enjoy a book about the kind of books that Persephone reprints. A Very Great Profession analyses the work of a number of women writers to present a portrait, though their fiction, of middle class Englishwomen in the period between the wars, along the way illuminating themes such as domestic life, romantic love,