2025/027: The Expensive Halo — Josephine Tey

2025/027: The Expensive Halo — Josephine Tey

On Sara the riot of peacock greens and blues and iris yellows [of her silk offcut dressing-gown] looked barbarically appropriate. Every time her eye lighted on the splendour and the subtlety of them she had a moment of pleasure, and each time her eye lighted on herself in the splendour her pleasure was renewed. She was Egypt, she was Diana, she was Circe. Sara’s dressing-gown was one of the things that helped to make life bearable for Sara. [loc. 404]

Published in 1931, this standalone, non-thriller novel by Josephine Tey is the story of two brother-and-sister pairs -- one aristocratic, the other working class.( Read more... )