The Gulls Fly Inland

di Sylvia Thompson (Autore)

Handheld Classics, 2024

It is October 1939. BlancheLancret is a French exile in England, looking afterher Americanfriend Annabelle’s baby. She is waiting for news of Annabelle’s brother Vernon, who isserving with anambulance unitinnewly-invadedFrance, and of her surrogate mother Tante Julie, a richdémimondainenursing her dying husband Otto on the French Riviera. To maintain her sang-froid Blanche writes her journal,recalling how she metVernon as a schoolgirl,her girlhoodwithTante Julie inParis and with her father in Italy, and her inexplicable betrayal byTanteJulie’s servants, who ensure that Blanche and Vernonfail tomeet at a crucial point in their courtship. Vernonthen marriestheimpervious Bostonian Leonora and Blanchebelieves him to be lost to her forever.Until Vernon realises that Blanche is about to sail back to Europe and appears in her stateroom asking her to stay …Asthe years wind forward Blanche and Vernonremain separated byotherpeople’s machinations, and only the war might setthemfree. SylviaThompson’s glorious, passionate novel ofthe 1930s and the early years of theSecond World War is a sumptuous romance set in the imperturbable correctness ofinterwarParis, and in fast-moving 1930s London and Boston.Thompson’sstorytelling isdevastatingin its emotional truth.This is awonderful forgotten novel from 1941, now reissued with an introduction by Faye Hammill, Professor of English at the University of Glasgow.

• Autore: Sylvia Thompson
• Anno edizione: 2024
• Editore: Handheld Classics
• Formato: EPUB3 con Adobe DRM
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9781912766871

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