"The Counterplot" by Hope Mirrlees is a story about Teresa Lane, a young woman navigating her family's complicated relationships and trying to find meaning in everyday life. To soothe her restless mind, Teresa channels her observations and inner thoughts into writing a play set in a 14th-century Spanish convent. The book opens with Teresa pondering the beauty of Plasencia, her family home, and struggling to capture the essence of her surroundings in words. As she spends an afternoon with her mother and sister, witty conversations and underlying tensions reveal the family's unique personalities and bonds. Teresa's artistic dreams clash with her mother's opinions, setting up a story about personal growth, family ties, and the power of art.
The Counterplot
By Hope Mirrlees
In a home filled with subtle tensions, a young woman confronts her family dynamics by pouring her heart into a dramatic play set in a faraway convent.
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About the Author(Helen) Hope Mirrlees was a British poet, novelist and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, an influential fantasy novel, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."
(Helen) Hope Mirrlees was a British poet, novelist and translator. She is best known for the 1926 Lud-in-the-Mist, an influential fantasy novel, and for Paris: A Poem (1920), an experimental poem published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press, which critic Julia Briggs deemed "modernism's lost masterpiece, a work of extraordinary energy and intensity, scope and ambition."
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