Sarah Whitman
Published on 31. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-0-552-16798-7 (ISBN)
Description
A 'God is an Englishman' kind of novel - about a very human kind of Englishwoman, a woman who fought her way up from domestic service to schoolmistress and whose life was touched by three men, one who taught her what it was to love and be loved, another who waited for her in vain, and a third - the strange tormented man who was to be her destiny.
Rich in adventure, history and human passions, this is a novel of astonishing breadth...an enthralling panorama of life and love between the wars...
Rich in adventure, history and human passions, this is a novel of astonishing breadth...an enthralling panorama of life and love between the wars...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 178 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
1812 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-552-16798-7 (9780552167987)
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Diane Pearson was born in London but spent a large part of her childhood with her grandparents in a village on the Surrey/Kent borders. She is the bestselling author of Csardas, The Summer of the Barshinskeys and Voices of Summer and is President of the Romantic Novelists' Association. In 1994 she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year.