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Gavin and Hannah Eastwood are on holiday with their small son, Giles, in Belgium. Secure, prosaic, a little complacent perhaps, but generous, kind and very sensible about their over-protective feelings for their son.
The holiday is interrupted by Melissa, a student of Gavin's, so infatuated by him that she has followed the Eastwoods to Begium - her presence brings the predictable amount of irritation and embarrassment that teenagers in love with older, married men usually do.
An appalling tragedy ensues. But it is not what you might expect.
'In its unity of time, place and action, the novel achieves a strangely magnified effect, an intensity that grows with each plain unintense statement' Financial Times
The holiday is interrupted by Melissa, a student of Gavin's, so infatuated by him that she has followed the Eastwoods to Begium - her presence brings the predictable amount of irritation and embarrassment that teenagers in love with older, married men usually do.
An appalling tragedy ensues. But it is not what you might expect.
'In its unity of time, place and action, the novel achieves a strangely magnified effect, an intensity that grows with each plain unintense statement' Financial Times
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Book Description:
From the author of Cork Street, Next To The Hatter's
About the Author:
Pamela Hansford Johnson was born in 1912 and gained recognition with her first novel, This Bed Thy Centre, published in 1935. She wrote 27 novels. Her themes centred on the moral responsibility of the individual in their personal and social relations. The fictional genres she used ranged from romantic comedy (Night and Silence, Who Is Here?) and high comedy (The Unspeakable Skipton) to tragedy (The Holiday Friend) and the psychological study of cruelty (An Error of Judgement). Her last novel, A Bonfire, was published in the year of her death, 1981.
She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions (1958) confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House (1954), a work of social criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays, Important to Me (1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975.
Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist Gordon Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.
She was a critic as well as a novelist and wrote books on Thomas Wolfe and Ivy Compton-Burnett; Six Proust Reconstructions (1958) confirmed her reputation as a leading Proustian scholar. She also wrote a play, Corinth House (1954), a work of social criticism arising out of the Moors Trial, On Iniquity (1967), and a book of essays, Important to Me (1974). She received honorary degrees from six universities and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded the C.B.E. in 1975.
Pamela Hansford Johnson, who had two children by her first marriage with journalist Gordon Neil Stewart, later married C. P. Snow. Their son Philip was born in 1952.
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- PublisherCE/OP
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1447215583
- ISBN 13 9781447215585
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages236
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