
Lapsing
1986
First Published
3.58
Average Rating
251
Number of Pages
At Oxford during the 1950s, Tessa, an undergraduate enters into a strange menage a trois with the husband she admires and the young priest she loves a situation that precipitates a crisis of faith for the Roman Catholic Tessa
Avg Rating
3.58
Number of Ratings
31
5 STARS
6%
4 STARS
52%
3 STARS
39%
2 STARS
0%
1 STARS
3%
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Jill Paton Walsh
Author · 31 books
Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School. Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1976 for Unleaving; The Universe Prize, 1984 for A Parcel of Patterns; and the Smarties Grand Prix, 1984, for Gaffer Samson's Luck. Series: * Imogen Quy * Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane