Emily and Daisy
Published on 28. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
440 pages
978-1-80046-546-6 (ISBN)
Description
This is a love story. A love story with a difference that lives across time and space and explores the ways in which the accidents of love can combine in the forging of a life.
Rural Devon, World War II. In her last year of school and living above the family shop, Daisy studies for her exams and keeps her journal. After he paints a watercolour portrait of her, she falls for James, a young army captain.
Paris, the end of the twentieth century. Emily lives comfortably with her father, having just left university and unsure of what comes next. Upon discovering Daisy's portrait, she becomes enchanted by the young woman who seems to have inexplicably disappeared from her uncle's life.
Campiston house in rural Sussex connects the two women. In her teens Emily spends her Summer vacations with her great uncle, but he never speaks of Daisy. Later, James wills the house to Emily who pursues the mystery of Daisy's disappearance.
Their lives may have different trajectories, but something resonates with Emily as she delves deeper into the traces of Daisy's world. Each revelation demands that Emily see herself and her world in new ways.
Rural Devon, World War II. In her last year of school and living above the family shop, Daisy studies for her exams and keeps her journal. After he paints a watercolour portrait of her, she falls for James, a young army captain.
Paris, the end of the twentieth century. Emily lives comfortably with her father, having just left university and unsure of what comes next. Upon discovering Daisy's portrait, she becomes enchanted by the young woman who seems to have inexplicably disappeared from her uncle's life.
Campiston house in rural Sussex connects the two women. In her teens Emily spends her Summer vacations with her great uncle, but he never speaks of Daisy. Later, James wills the house to Emily who pursues the mystery of Daisy's disappearance.
Their lives may have different trajectories, but something resonates with Emily as she delves deeper into the traces of Daisy's world. Each revelation demands that Emily see herself and her world in new ways.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Market Harborough
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Troubador Publishing
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-80046-546-6 (9781800465466)
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Person
Paul Yates worked as an anthropologist and university teacher before deciding to explore being human in new ways through fiction. The shift from academic to literary writing was constantly demanding in unforeseen ways, like going to live in a country one thought one knew.