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Four French Holidays (inbunden, eng)
Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-f...
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Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region.
Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led to ‘Still Waters’ and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday.
And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.
Format | Inbunden |
Omfång | 144 sidor |
Språk | Engelska |
Förlag | Unicorn Publishing Group |
Utgivningsdatum | 2023-03-01 |
ISBN | 9781911397274 |
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