Rosamond Lehmann Books in Order

Judith Earle grows up fascinated by the glamorous cousins who visit next door. As she moves toward Cambridge and adulthood, her attachments to them and to a charismatic fellow student bring desire, disillusionment, and lasting emotional change.

Grace Fairfax's routine in a northern manufacturing town offers little satisfaction, despite her vivid inner life. When Hugh Miller and his sister Claire arrive, their charm unsettles Grace, her friend Norah, and the assumptions sustaining both marriages.

Returning from a summer holiday, a woman reflects on the pleasures and restrictions of her domestic life in a letter to her sister. Memories of freedom prompt questions about ambition, routine, identity and the passage of time.

On her seventeenth birthday, shy Olivia Curtis prepares for her first dance, torn between anticipation and dread. Alongside her confident elder sister, she enters a social world where small encounters carry the weight of enormous hopes.

Ten years after her first dance, Olivia Curtis has a failed marriage behind her. A chance train encounter with a man she admired as a teenager begins a clandestine affair sustained by secrecy, brief meetings, and uncertainty.

Ten-year-old Rebecca is drawn to the enigmatic Mrs. Jardine when the older woman returns to the neighborhood. Through their encounters, she hears a tangled family history that challenges her understanding of marriage, motherhood, and adult authority.

An encounter between two families' children exposes the gulf separating their social worlds in the title story. These tales of rural England explore fragile friendships, domestic tensions, and the grief beneath apparently ordinary lives.

Five stories follow women and families confronting the pressures of memory, class, war, and loss. Childhood friendships, disrupted holidays, and village life reveal how ordinary encounters can expose the fragile arrangements holding people's private worlds together.

After Rickie's unexpected death, his wife Madeleine and her sister Dinah must confront the affair that bound him to them both. Their tangled memories reveal how love, rivalry, and betrayal have shaped the sisters' relationship.

Wellesley Tudor Pole presents what he believed were memories of the life and times of Jesus, related to Rosamond Lehmann. Their collaboration approaches the biblical past through spiritual experience, linking personal recollection with claims about unseen realms.

Rosamond Lehmann recalls her sheltered childhood and the experiences that shaped her inner life before confronting her daughter Sally's sudden death. Her account of grief follows a search for consolation that leads her toward spiritualism and renewed hope.

Betrayed by her married lover, Rebecca travels alone to a Caribbean island in 1933. An encounter with a reclusive former pilot and memories of Mrs. Jardine reshape her understanding of love and the life she might still build.

Photographs from Rosamond Lehmann's personal albums trace her life from 1901 onward, accompanied by captions she wrote herself. Introductory and closing reflections frame a visual memoir of the people, places, and relationships that shaped her experience.