The Snow Ball

<p><b>When Anna is kissed by a mysterious</b> <b>stranger</b> <b>at</b> <b>a NYE masquerade ball</b><b>, a dance of seduction begins.</b><br> 'So original and refreshing.' <b>Hilary Mantel</b><br> 'Brilliantly seductive ... A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat.' <b>Sarah Waters</b><br> 'Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence.' <b>Iris Murdoch</b><br> 'A great novel ... A swirling, sumptuous, sensual feast.' <i>Guardian</i><br> <br> London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of a masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a dance of seduction charged by clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter ... A scandalous sensation in 1964, <b>Brigid Brophy's <i>The Snow Ball</i></b> is ripe to seduce a new generation of readers.<br> <br> 'I read it in one sitting ... Wonderful!' <b>Claire-Louise Bennett</b><br> 'A feminist remodelling of libertine fervour and passion.<b>' Eley Williams</b><br> 'One of the wittiest British writers of the past half century ... A comet in her day.' <b>Terry Castle</b><br> <br> <b>What Readers Are Saying:<br> An ornate masterpiece. Sensual, wicked, clever; its dark heart glittering. So pleasurable and original and weird.<br> <br> Takes the heady, lusty, excitement that comes with new love and mingles it with the exuberance, decadence, and hedonism of NYE ... A short swirling treat.<br> <br> A perfect little masterpiece, an opera in paperback ... I was seduced and I hoped and I flinched and I laughed and I admired.<br> <br> The lovechild of Angela Carter and Virginia Woolf: trippy and fluid, existential and erotic, funny and witty: a hedonistic comedy of manners.<br> <br> I think I love this crazy little book .. Super sexy ... Made me hoot out loud with glee for the language and audacity.<br> <br> Oh man, this was a lot of fun. Such a strong sense of intelligence and wit behind every sentence.</b></p>