The Snow Ball: The Dazzling Cult Classic

The scandalous 1960s cult classic: w****hen Anna is kissed by a masked figure at a New Year's Eve masquerade ball**, a heady dance of seduction begins.**

'Superb ... Sheer artistic insolence.' Iris Murdoch

'Brilliantly seductive ... A witty, sexy, sophisticated treat.' Sarah Waters

London, New Year's Eve. Snow falls on a Georgian mansion, vibrating with the festivities of an eighteenth-century themed masquerade ball within. Middle-aged divorcee Anna stands alone, mourning her youth - until the clock chimes midnight and a mysterious masked figure kisses her on the mouth. Thus begins a heady dance of seduction charged by other clandestine romances swirling around them, whipping the ball into an erotic frenzy of operatic proportions - until the night climaxes, revealing unease beneath the glitter ...

A scandalous sensation in 1964, Brigid Brophy's The Snow Ballis a dazzling festive classic ripe to seduce a new generation of readers.

'One of the strangest and wittiest British writers of the past half century ... A comet in her day.' Terry Castle

'A feminist remodelling of libertine fervour and passion ... Brophy's art is fiction at its finest.' Eley Williams