{"product_id":"9781590175101","title":"A Game of Hide and Seek","description":"The mid-twentieth century British novelist Elizabeth Taylor\u003cbr\u003e numbered among her admirers Elizabeth Bowen, Ivy Compton-\u003cbr\u003e Burnett, and Kingsley Amis. She also regularly published stories\u003cbr\u003e in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/i\u003efor close to two decades. For all that, her\u003cbr\u003e work, as steely as it is delicate, remains the secret of a small\u003cbr\u003e number of intensely devoted readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The publication of her finest novel, \u003ci\u003eA Game of Hide and Seek,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e long unavailable in the United States, should help to change\u003cbr\u003e that. This is an unabashed love story, capturing all the uncertainty\u003cbr\u003e and inevitability and deceptiveness of true love, tracking\u003cbr\u003e the shifting currents of emotional life, and never yielding to\u003cbr\u003e melodrama. Set in Britain between the wars, a time of transition\u003cbr\u003e between old convention and new ways, the book has for a\u003cbr\u003e heroine Harriet, the only child of a suffragette, whom we meet\u003cbr\u003e as a shy and domestic and not especially smart or pretty girl.\u003cbr\u003e At eighteen she falls in love with Vesey, but after Vesey must\u003cbr\u003e go away, she marries another man, Charles, and bears a child.\u003cbr\u003e Then Vesey returns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Love is at the center of the book, but so too is Taylor’s extraordinary\u003cbr\u003e knack for depicting characters. The minor figures in\u003cbr\u003e the book—from Harriet’s mother’s friend Caroline, with her\u003cbr\u003e progressive politics, to Charles, his coworkers, and his mother,\u003cbr\u003e to Betsy with her schoolgirl crush on her Greek teacher—are as\u003cbr\u003e memorable as the passion and heartache of Harriet and Vesey.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138098577648,"sku":"9781590175101","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590175101_p0.jpg?v=1763802827","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590175101","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}