The Counterplot

by Hope Mirrlees

Hope Mirrlees's second novel centres around a Roman Catholic family - the Lanes - and in particular Teresa Lane's struggle to reconcile faith and love. Teresa writes a play - The Key, set in a nunnery in Seville during the reign of Pedro the Cruel - to illuminate the clash of Life and religion ("Life, noisy, tangible, resilient, supple, cunning Life,...laughing...at the makers of myths..."), and the play forms part of the novel.

323 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1924

About the author

Hope Mirrlees (1887-1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); three volumes of poetry, including Paris: A Poem (1919), described by the critic Julia Briggs as "modernism's lost masterpiece"; and A Fly in Amber (1962), a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton.

Reviews

[Jordan]

that's right! i passed my exam and am living it up by reading TWO BOOKS AT ONCE. WHOOO-HOOOOO!!!!!

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ohhhh dearrrrr. i returned this to the library after only 2 pages.