Dusty Answer vs The Memorial: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall, British and irish fiction, England, Fiction
Dusty Answer
Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, now a classic of British literature, tells a luminous story of friendship, discovery, and forbidden love This debut novel, set in the early 1900s, tells the story of Judith Earle, a…
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The Memorial
The Memorial is a 1932 English novel by author Christopher Isherwood. The novel tells the story of an English family's disintegration in the days following World War I. Isherwood's second published novel, this is the…
The verdict
- Readers rate Dusty Answer highest: Dusty Answer 3.8 · The Memorial 3.4.
- Dusty Answer has the widest readership — 1000 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Dusty Answer | The Memorial | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (1000) | 3.4 (455) |
| Hardcover | 2.8 (2) | 4.0 (2) |
Reception
| Dusty Answer | The Memorial | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 1000 | 455 |
| Editions | 32 | 22 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 2629 | 1643 |
| Reading it now | 64 | 22 |
| Written reviews | 151 | 56 |
| Wikipedia attention | 445 | 119 |
| Pages | 340 | 294 |