The Burial

London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961.

First Edition. Publisher's blue cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket, slightly chipped at ends of the backstrip. Without old inscriptions, etc. A near fine copy. Jennifer Lash, also known as Jini Fiennes, was an English novelist and painter. In the 1950s, she met the poet and gallery owner Iris Birtwistle in Churt, Surrey, where they were both living. Shortly afterwards, when Birtwistle moved to Walberswick, Suffolk, Lash went with her and, encouraged by Birtwistle, began work on her first novel,' The Burial'. Birtwistle renamed Lash 'Jini' and introduced her to her future husband Mark Fiennes whom she married in 1962. Seven children were produced from the marriage, including actors Ralph and Joe Fiennes, film makers Martha and Sophie Fiennes and composer the Magnus Fiennes.