Virago Modern Classics discussion

I started A Note in Music this morning and am quite enjoying it. The protagonists in this one are middle-aged as opposed to the very young characters in Dusty Answer. And by the way, this book has a black spine, not a green one. Were there many of those? It's not the cover shown on this site.

(copied this post from other thread, started this a few days ago.

Lehmann is dealing with an oppressive marriage, the novel was published in 1930. Here is Norah, one of the two protagonists, in reaction to her husband's passive aggressive behavior when she gets home late for dinner:

"Why should this vampire family so prey on her and put her down that even one afternoon's freedom became a matter of importance, to be regretted afterward?" And later: "She wanted, even for a few moments, to feel her own identity peacefully floating apart from them all.....but this was not possible, never for a second, in one's own home.?

Beautiful language with ideas that are still so relevant.

Finished this tonight. Lehmann deals so well with outsiders in society - a circus 'freak,' a moonlighting prostitue, repressed people of all sorts. There are not huge moments in this novel but lots of small, telling ones. And Lehmann's language is beautiful.