The Constant Nymph (Paperback)

from MsStephie

If I'd read this as a teenager I think I'd have a different view of it.I couldn't really get past that Tess was 14/15 and Lewis twice her age. I couldn't understand why no-one in the book ever said it was wrong of Lewis to encourage Tess. There was a scene where she acted as hostess for him in li...

from Kasthu

The Constant Nymph is one of those coming of age stories. This story is that of Tessa Sanger, the daughter of an unusual bohemian composer who lives in a chalet in the Austrian Alps with his ragtag group of children. Albert Sanger has a habit of randomly inviting other artists to the chalet, and ...

from LizzieD

Briefly, this is about the lives of the women who live with two musical geniuses, an ex-pat Brit and his protogé. The men are wild and selfish beyond imagining, but they're geniuses. So how much is the reader supposed to accept them as such and get on with it? I could never decide, but I did thin...

from Liz1564

Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph, written in 1924, is a jewel of a novel. Her characters leap off the page, especially the four Sanger children, progeny of a selfish and careless musical genius. There are actually six legitimate children of composer Albert Sanger. His two eldest, who disappe...

from Liz1564

Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph, written in 1924, is a jewel of a novel. Her characters leap off the page, especially the four Sanger children, progeny of a selfish and careless musical genius. There are actually six legitimate children of composer Albert Sanger. His two eldest, who disappe...