The Skating Party

Vintage (paperback) UK

The events of The Skating Party take place in a single day as a group of friends skate down a frozen river. A portrait emerges of people tragically at odds in their need for love and their mastery of it.

'This sensitive and forceful novel exposes the complexities of each person's character and their different needs as each strives for recognition and reassurance.'
- The Times

'Marina Warner's literary terrain is already her own but her characters would find themselves at home in Iris Murdoch's fiction.'

- New Statesman

'Recalls writers like Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamond Lehmann...Marina Warner is a novelist of real talent and fine discrimination.'
-Scotsman

'Immensely wrought'
- Observer

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