Statues in a Garden
- Author Isabel Colegate
- Narrator Kristin Atherton
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
- Run Time 7 hours and 27 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Adventure fiction, First World War fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction.
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What to expect
‘Just the right mixture of doomed fun, melancholy and faintly lascivious despair’ Observer
‘I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.’
1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.
But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear – while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow their world whole.
A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
‘I am afraid I have something to tell you. It is that we are all about to be destroyed.’
1914. The old standards are going. There is bitterness in politics, talk of civil war in Ireland.
But all this means little to Cynthia Weston, attractive wife of cabinet member Aylmer Weston, and her nephew by marriage Philip. They are caught up in the charmed, perilous toils of a mutual passion that will destroy all they hold most dear – while the shadow of war lengthens and darkens, ready to swallow their world whole.
A captivating portrait of a lost world, Statues in a Garden is a rediscovered masterpiece by one of the most important and neglected British female writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Critics Review
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Colegate’s novels offer readers clear-eyed, illuminating windows onto this now bygone world … Colegate has no equal … In shining a light on the past, Colegate also illuminates the present
Paris Review -
She should be a household name
Eleanor Catton -
An extraordinary achievement
Times Literary Supplement, Summer Reading Picks 2020 -
Stylish, funny, as vivid and brilliant as a painting on glass
Daily Telegraph -
Combine the slightly offbeat sensibility of Muriel Spark with the milieu of an Iris Murdoch novel and you’ll have something of an idea about this witty tale
BBC Culture -
She writes so gracefully and with such skill that her “private fable” acquires a truly fabulous quality
Times Literary Supplement
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