Pauline Gedge

“Khaemwaset’s eyes remained on the riverbank as the green confusion of spring glided by. Beyond the fecund, brilliant life of the bank…

— Pauline Gedge

“The mist was very dark in here, white and wet, and the cobwebs festooning the gaunt tree trunks were weighed down with…

— Pauline Gedge

I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

— Pauline Gedge

“... but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators…

— Pauline Gedge

“The night folded around them with a sweetness and poignancy heightened by the new pale stars that prickled silver fire in the…

— Pauline Gedge

“He watched the early light of the new moon glint fretfully on the river, now silver slivers, now darkness, as the night…

— Pauline Gedge

“The apple trees were in full bloom, the scent enveloping the party in a heady, almost palpable mist, and pale petals rocked…

— Pauline Gedge

I'm not ashamed to say I love television. I put the TV on, and my brain switches off, and I just sit…

— Pauline Gedge

“Noon was approaching and the shadows under the sycamores were thin and short. The surface of the blue-tiled fish-pond was glassily still…

— Pauline Gedge

“The feathery palms that lined the drainage canals, the acacia thorns and sycamores, all glistened with the sheen of new, pale-green leaves,…

— Pauline Gedge

“Bint-Anath was approaching, her many-pleated, floor-length sheath floating scarlet around her, her slim shoulders visible under a billowing white flounced cloak, and…

— Pauline Gedge