Confinement - Hardcover

McMahon, Katharine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002256320 ISBN 13: 9780002256322

Verlag: Flamingo, 1998

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From the reviews of Footsteps:

‘Footsteps is put together with intelligence and feeling, a grasp of narrative pace and an empathy for the weather-buffeted Suffolk coast. She succeeds in suggesting the complexity, waywardness and inexplicable patches that constitute life. A good read.’
Elizabeth Buchan, The Times

‘Irreducibly delicate and tough-minded, I strongly suggest you read it and that someone gets a television script out of it.’
TES

Reseña del editor

Commercial literary fiction at its best. The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped by her duty to her job, is mirrored by a modern day woman’s fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage.

Bess Hardemon, a tough and canny young teacher living in the mid-nineteenth century, is determined to make a difference at her new school, Priors Heath. Under the austere gaze of the Reverend Carnegie and his deputy, Miss Simms, the young girls remain underfed and unstimulated – until the arrival of the bright, motivated young Bess.

At the cost of her own chance of finding love, Bess remains trapped by her duty, a confinement echoed a century later by Sarah, a teacher at the modern-day Priors Heath who must make her own choice between her duty to her pupils and her efforts to save a broken marriage.

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• Verlag: Flamingo
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0002256320
• ISBN 13: 9780002256322
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320