The Yellow Houses - Softcover

Gibbons, Stella

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784870285 ISBN 13: 9781784870287

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2016

Synopsis

Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any sense of purpose. A mysterious stranger passes him a handkerchief, and strikes up a conversation that leads to friendship and an unconventional new home for Wilfred.

Mary Davis wants only four things out of life: a husband and three children, so at seventeen she runs away from school, her father and her home and moves to London to find them. Only a few months later Mary is engaged, but love and marriage promise to be very different from her childhood daydreams.

For Mary and Wilfred, it seems Fate has taken a hand, or is there another kind of guiding spirit at play?

Stella Gibbons' final novel, written in the 1970s but only discovered many years after her death, is published here for the first time.

About this title

Review:

"Fans of the acclaimed British author, described as the “Jane Austen of the 20th century” will be delighted that the existence of two never-before-published novels have been revealed by her daughter" (Independent)

"Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on" (Mail on Sunday)

"Gibbons portrays her heroine with such sensitivity that this young woman and her story prove impossible to resist" (Daily Express)

"Told with characteristic wit" (Big Issue)

Book Description:

The second of two forgotten novels by Stella Gibbons, discovered in 2014 and published now for the first time

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1784870285
• ISBN 13: 9781784870287
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400