As It Was Category_Grey Books/Single Women and one or two have

and one or two have appeared in anthologies since

called Halfway Down the Cliff

although the background is sombre

’ Although both AC Benson's Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton (1886) and Rose Macauley's The Lee Shore (1912) have a claim to being among Britain's first gay novels

is about a woman who goes on a cruise and is swept overboard

As It Was Category_Grey Books/Single Women and one or two haveAFTERWORD BY ISABEL RAPHAEL 328pp ISBN 9781910263327 'I remember so well that very first meeting' As It Was consists of two short, beautifully written memoirs, As It Was (1926) and World Without End (1931), about Helen Thomass life with the poet Edward Thomas. In the first book they meet, fall in love, make love, and get married. The second describes their life until the day Edward left to return to the trenches in France. Read together, they are a