Rebecca West - Sunflower, Virago Press, 1986

Rebecca West - Sunflower, Virago Press, 1986

The narrative begins with Sunflower's growing dissatisfaction with her ten-year relationship with Lord Essington, whose obsession with intellectual pursuits leaves her craving deeper emotional connection. The plot explores the dissolution of this affair and the beginning of her new romance with Francis Pitt, though the novel ends before their relationship is fully explored.  Autobiographical elements: West wrote Sunflower during her own psychoanalysis, drawing heavily from her turbulent, decade-long affair with H.G. Wells and her later relationship with Lord Beaverbrook.  Publication history: West suppressed the novel during her lifetime, and it was eventually published posthumously in 1986.

Ex-library hardcover with dust jacket in fair condition.  Dust jacket in wrapper taped to endpapers.  'Joseph Rowntree Library' ink stamp to top and tail page edges.  Remaining stickers to endpaper.  Tanning to leaves.  Text firm and clean.

Weight    595g.         Pages    276.