Refer To New Isbn 0099415690 - Softcover

Manning, Olivia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749317639 ISBN 13: 9780749317638

Publisher: Arrow, 1994

Synopsis

It is 1940, and Guy and Harriet Pringle are still in Bucharest, but the "phoney war" is over. This second part of "The Balkan Trilogy" is a portrait of a city in upheaval, unsure where its loyalties lie, and of a young couple struggling to succeed with their marriage in the face of adversity.

About this title

Review:

"The most considerable of our women novelists." --Anthony Burgess "From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author:

Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she puts it, had 'the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere'. The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R.D. Smith, a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arrow
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0749317639
• ISBN 13: 9780749317638
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304