The Double Heart

by Lettice Cooper

1962. No edition remarks. 256 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth. File copy. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Mild tanning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over. Pencil to rear panel.

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

Lettice Ulpha Cooper began to write stories when she was seven. She studied Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford graduating in 1918.

She returned home after Oxford to work for her family's engineering firm and wrote her first novel, 'The Lighted Room' in 1925. She spent a year as associate edtior at 'Time and Tide' and during the Second World War worked for the Ministry of Food's public relations division. Between 1947 and 1957 she was fiction reviewer for the Yorkshire Post. She was one of the founders of the Writers' Action Group along with Brigid Brophy, Maureen Duffy, Francis King and Michael Levy and received an OBE for her work in achieving Public Lending Rights. In 1987 at the age of ninety she was awarded the Freedom of the City of Leeds.

She never married and died in Coltishall, Norfolk at the age of 96.

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Reviews

[Margaret · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it a lot until about the last fifty pages, and then I thought it flew off the rails a bit, plus had a very unsatisfying ending. Still, worth reading (though I'd recommend Fenny or The New House as better starting points for reading Cooper).