The Winter House (Charnwood Library) - Hardcover

Lennox, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0708948847 ISBN 13: 9780708948842

Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

A novel of love, friendship and idealism, that follows the lives, hopes and tragedies of three women during a time of political and social upheaval, through the Spanish Civil War to the brink of World War II. It is set against a backdrop of Paris, London and the English countryside.

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From the Back Cover:

For three girls growing up in the Fens in the tumultuous years between two world wars, the Winter House was a special place of refuge and friendship. Winter or summer, they would meet at the old wooden house by the waterside to confide all the secrets and heartaches of childhood and adolescence. There was Robin, idealistic and clever, destined for Cambridge; Maia, the most beautiful and ambitious of the three, looking for a rich husband; and quiet Helen, living under the seemingly benevolent tyranny of her widower father, the local vicar. Adulthood separates the three girls, and Robin, abandoning ideas of university, goes to London to work amongst the poor, meeting there her first great love, the handsome but brittle Francis. Maia's ideal marriage to a wealthy man ends in tragedy and Helen, meanwhile, kept in near-imprisonment by her obsessively protective father, has her very sanity threatened.

Hugely satisfying, dramatic and romantic, The Winter House tells how these women find their way through a world changed for ever, through political and social upheaval, through the Spanish Civil War and to the brink of the Second World War. Set against a backdrop of London, Paris and the unchanging English countryside, it is a novel of rare warmth and beauty.

About the Author:

Judith Lennox was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, but spent most of her childhood in an isolated part of the Hampshire countryside, living in what had formerly been the gamekeeper's cottage of a large country house. After attending a variety of schools, she read English at Lancaster University, and has since worked as a civil servant, an abstracter of scientific reports, and as a pianist for a ballet school. She met her husband, Iain, at Lancaster, they have three sons and now live in Cambridgeshire. Of her novels The Secret Years, The Winter House, Some Old Lover's Ghost, Footprints on the Sand and The Shadow Child are published by Corgi Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0708948847
• ISBN 13: 9780708948842
• Binding: Hardcover