Sunlight and Shadows
Writers in the South of France
Will be published approx. on 10. June 2021
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-913532-05-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jean Cocteau. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Aldous Huxley. Katherine Mansfield. Somerset Maugham. Edith Wharton.
The French Riviera has long been a setting for wealth and romance but between the wars it was also the home for writers from all over the world. For many it was a cheap place to live well; for others the climate was good for their health; while some were fleeing romance, addiction, and even prosecution.
They all found a haven of sunlight and beauty and they all found the space to live in their imaginations and write their masterpieces - but what terrible secrets did they bring with them?
Sunlight and Shadows explores the lives and works of these six best-selling twentieth century writers who lived, loved and wrote in the South of France.
The French Riviera has long been a setting for wealth and romance but between the wars it was also the home for writers from all over the world. For many it was a cheap place to live well; for others the climate was good for their health; while some were fleeing romance, addiction, and even prosecution.
They all found a haven of sunlight and beauty and they all found the space to live in their imaginations and write their masterpieces - but what terrible secrets did they bring with them?
Sunlight and Shadows explores the lives and works of these six best-selling twentieth century writers who lived, loved and wrote in the South of France.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
12 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13
978-1-913532-05-5 (9781913532055)
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Person
Julia Carter was born in Lincoln to Viennese emigres parents. She read English at Durham University and lives in London with her husband. They have two daughters and four grandchildren and spend summers at their house in the South of France. Sunlight and Shadows is her first book.