Celestine Voices from French Village

Informationen zum Autor Gillian Tindall is a master of miniaturist history, well known for the quality of her writing and the scrupulousness of her research; she makes a handful of people, a few locations or a dramatic event stand for the much larger picture, as her seminal book The Fields Beneath , approached the history of Kentish Town, London. She has also written on London's Southbank ( The House by the Thames ), on southern English counties ( Three Houses, Many Lives ), and the Left Bank ( Footprints in Paris ), amongst other locations, as well as biography and prize-winning novels. Her latest book, The Tunnel through Time , traced the history of the Crossrail route, the forthcoming ‘Elizabeth’ line. She has lived in the same London house for over fifty years. Klappentext When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village. Zusammenfassung When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France! recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions! she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman! Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village.

Product details

• Authors: Gillian Tindall
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 25.03.1996
• EAN: 9780749320256
• ISBN: 978-0-7493-2025-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; History, France, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, REFERENCE / Genealogy & Heraldry, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Family history, tracing ancestors, Social and cultural history, Biography: historical, political and military