O, The Brave Music

A female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set before the First World War. Ruan is an intelligent and imaginative child, who gradually comes to understand the nuances of the adult world around her, as she moves from the Manse, under the strict rule of her father, a non-conformist minister, to Cobbetts, her mother's ancestral home, under the tutelage of her Uncle Alaric, and back to the guardianship of Rosie Day at Bolton House high up on the moor above the town where she was born. Her young life is shaped by a series of tragedies, but also the warmth of enduring friendships, particularly with David, her dearest friend who shares her love of the wild expanse and colours of the moor.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Evelyn Smith, Dorothy Evelyn Smith, Dorothy-Evelyn Smith
• Assisted by: Simon Thomas (Afterword)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780712353380
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5338-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 190 mm x 20 mm
• Series: British Library Women Writers
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Classic fiction: general and literary