Tree of Angels - Softcover

Sumner, Penny

Softcover

ISBN 10: 075286386X ISBN 13: 9780752863863

Publisher: Orion, 2004

Synopsis

A house carved fine as a jewellery box, a painted garden, an angel in a palm tree . . . these are some of the marvels of the Russian estate on which Nina grows up, surrounded by her beautiful mother, her eccentric father, her sister and the housekeeper, who passes on the old Russian folktales and traditions.

After the death of her mother, Nina takes the difficult decision to leave her homeland and marry a complete stranger. She arrives in England on the brink of the First World War and must adjust to a society very different from her own.

Over the next eighty years, the family scatters across the globe in the wake of the Russian Revolution and two world wars. It is only when Nina's own granddaughter begins a search for her roots that her family's tragic history can be pieced together for the first time.

About this title

About the Author

Penny Sumner has worked as a waitress, a photographer at a dolphin pool and a seller of antiquarian books. She came to England from Australia to do postgraduate studies at Oxford and currently lives with her family in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she works as course leader for the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria. She has edited a number of anthologies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 075286386X
• ISBN 13: 9780752863863
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400