Quartet

The quartet at the heart of this delightful novel are the four Gainsborough siblings: beautiful but vain Lorna, ultra-sensitive Adrian, nature-loving Laurence and thoughtful, strange little Jenifer. We join them in 1900 - four happy children at the heart of a loving family, idolizing their strikingly beautiful mother, shrinking from their emotionally damaged Aunt Lena and ill-tempered governess, Miss Marchant. As their world widens on the journey to adulthood - through the advent of the motor car, the horrors of the First World War, the trials and tribulations of unrequited love and unfulfilled dreams - they must fight to keep that happiness. But with Lorna compelled to make everyone love her, Adrian's artistic genius crippled by over-sensitivity to criticism, and Laurence so intent on success in business that he forgets to really live, will Jenifer's clear-sighted pragmatism be enough to save them?A beautiful exploration of love and family, Quartet has a vivid cast of characters worthy of Elizabeth Gaskell and paints a wonderful, affectionate portrait of childhood to rival Richmal Crompton's Just William.

Product details

• Authors: Richmal Crompton
• Publisher: Bello
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9781509859474
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5947-4
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)