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The Lie Circumspect is a novel by Rita. Rita was an English novelist also known as Eliza Humphreys. Excerpt: "Startled and white as death, she looked up at his face. It was not the face she had known and loved in her girlish innocence; not the face that had haunted her memory for four despairing years. It was the face of a man into whose soul the iron of suffering had entered, whose heart had been seared, not purified, in the furnace of sorrow. It takes a great nature to bear deserved punishment, and Lawrence Latimer's nature was not great."

«Su visión de la mujer es la que otorga a esta novela esa vertiente subversiva que la emparenta con la obra de Jane Austen y Virginia Woolf». SARAH WATERS Lolly Willowes, de veintiocho años, está aún soltera cuando tras la muerte de su adorado padre pasa a depender de sus hermanos. Tras ocuparse de todo durante demasiado tiempo, decide escapar de su constreñida existencia y se traslada a una pequeña aldea en Bedfordshire. Allí, feliz y sin trabas, no tardará en descubrir su verdadera vocación: la brujería. Y junto a su gato y al más inesperado de los aliados, Lolly será, por...

Un libro que pretende desvelar lo cotidiano, lo que se oculta detrás de las apariencias grises y monótonas.

This short storybook is named after one of the stories contained within about a mother who tells her son a story that strikes him as a hint of her getting older. While on a phone call with him, she says: "This is the end. This book is about the feeling of being at one's limit.