The Greengage Summer: The Haunting, Beautiful Coming-of-Age Novel from the Author of Black Narcissus (Macmillan Collector's Library) - Hardcover

Godden, Rumer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509827358 ISBN 13: 9781509827350

Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2017

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A tense, evocative, portrait of love and deceit set during one long hot summer in France, The Greengage Summer is a hauntingly beautiful coming-of-age story by from Rumer Godden, the author of Black Narcissus, now a major BBC drama series.


When their mother is suddenly taken ill on holiday, five siblings are left to fend for themselves at the elegant, faded hotel, Les Oeillets. Under the increasingly jealous gaze of the glamorous patronne, Mademoiselle Zizi, the children gravitate towards her mysterious and charming lover, Eliot, for comfort. And, amongst the gnarled trees of the old orchards, thirteen-year-old Cecil watches from the sidelines as her achingly beautiful sister, Joss, is drawn into the heart of a toxic affair.



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Rumer Godden was one of Britain's most distinguished authors with many justly famous and much-loved books for both adults and children to her credit, including Black Narcissus, The Greengage Summer and The Peacock Spring. She was awarded the OBE in 1993 and died in 1998, aged ninety.

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On and off, all that hot French August, we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509827358
• ISBN 13: 9781509827350
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Niederlande