Editorial Pan
Fecha de edición agosto 2009
Idioma inglés
EAN 9780330475013
320 páginas
Libro
encuadernado en tapa blanda
A beautiful, very moving, melancholic and elegiac novel set in the late 1960s in Melton, a small town in the West Country. The story revolves around a disparate group of people who come together there to establish an arts festival. There is Jack Curtis a self-made millionaire who has bought and refurbished the local stately home, Florence Plover, a garden designer in her sixties whom he has employed and her Anglo-Greek niece, Persephone. There are the Musgrove siblings, Thomas and Mary, whose family originally owned Melton Hall, who run a failing garden nursery nearby and there is Francis Brock, whose sister Celia, Thomas's wife, was tragically killed in a car crash some years previously.
This is the story of their intertwining relationships and how they come to love, and not to love each other in different ways and why - a perfect book to curl up and read by the fireside on an autumn afternoon and as satisfying a read as Brief Encounter is a film.
Elizabeth Jane Howard (Londres, 1923-Suffolk, 2014) escribió quince novelas que recibieron una extraordinaria acogida de público y crítica. Los cinco volúmenes de x{0026}lt;em Crónica de los Cazaletx{0026}lt;/em , convertidos ya en un hito inexcusable dentro de las letras inglesas, fueron adaptados con gran éxito a la televisión y a la radio por la BBC. En el año 2002, su autora fue nombrada Comandante de la Orden del Imperio Británico.
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