WAUGH, Lady Teresa - Painting Water - (1984 First Edition Hardcover in Jacket)

 A scarce and unusual book  -  Did belong to a library before but book and wrapper remained in a good condition.    >>>   All Alice ever wanted was a husband and family, and that is what she got    >>>   As she lies dying, she is able to reflect on the life she spent making jam, looking after her husband and raising her children.   -  
Little disturbed the steady rhythm of family life and domesticity, and Alice was happy.   -   But one persons happiness is the next persons boredom.   -   Alices family, friends and parents all fought their own personal battle to keep the tedium of life at bay some more successfully than others.
-   Dick and his gardening, Marjorie and her Latin, Mary and her faith, Nicholas and his painting, Mr Hadley and his whiskey   -   People grow old, babies are born, vegetables are planted and harvested, and life goes on.
-   But as Alice lies on her death bed, an awful thought suddenly grips her.   -   Is she dying of boredom?  Illuminated with wit, moments of high comedy, occasional farce and flashes of delightful sarcasm altogether a thoroughly enjoyable and quietly moving book The Times    -   Moving and captivating said the Daily Express    -  Teresa Waugh was born in 1940, only daughter of the late sixth Earl of Onslow, KBt, MG, and she spent her childhood in the family home at West Clandon, Surrey. In 1961 she married an author and journalist with whom she lives in Somerset. In 1978 she took a First Class degree in French and Italian at Exeter University, and she has translated several books, including Jean Tulard's Napoleon, and Jean Gimpels The Cathedral Builders. Her other novels include Waterloo, Waterloo, The Gossips and Sylvias Lot.