Frost In May

Zusatztext A small masterpiece! the compelling and passionate story of young girls at a repressive religious school! told with such lyricism and elegant economy! such subtle understanding Informationen zum Autor Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul's School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May (1922), The Lost Traveller (1950), The Sugar House (1952) and Beyond the Glass (1954). Klappentext *'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life' Hermione Lee! Observer *´Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life´ Hermione Lee, Observer Zusammenfassung *'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life' Hermione Lee, Observer

Product details

• Authors: Antonia White
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Bowen (Introduction), Tessa Hadley (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.08.2006
• EAN: 9781844083787
• ISBN: 978-1-84408-378-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics; VMC; Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Religious, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary, Religious and spiritual fiction, Religious & Spiritual Fiction