This is another great novel by the beloved author of the Diary of a Provincial Lady and over 40 novels. The Heel of Achiles describes the life and interactions of young women during World War 1 in England. Her war work gave Delafield insights into the language and attitudes of classes other than her own, and enabled her to write this novel, which concerns a lower middle-class girl marrying 'above herself. This fairy-tale in which Cinderella does all the scheming for herself—has a unique gaiety and sparkle.
Author
Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author who is best-known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s, and its sequels in which the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London and travels to America. Other sequels of note are her experiences looking for war-work during the Phoney War in 1939, and her experiences as a tourist in the Soviet Union. Daughter of the novelist Mrs. Henry De La Pasture.
