The Servants' Quarters

Informationen zum Autor LYNN FREED was awarded the inaugural Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is the author of six novels, a short story collection, and a collection of essays. Klappentext Haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover on his family's African estate. When Harding plucks young Cressida's beautiful mother and family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants' quarters, Cressida is swept into a life inexorably bound to his. Zusammenfassung The Servants’ Quarters, a complex and sophisticated love story, evokes a vanishing world of privilege with a Pygmalion twist. Haunted by phantoms of the Second World War and the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover in his family’s stately African home. When he plucks young Cressida’s beautiful mother and her family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants’ quarters of his estate, Cressida is swept into a future inexorably bound to his. In the new setting, she finds that she is, after all, indentured. She is conscripted to enliven George Harding’s nephew, the hopelessly timid Edgar, to make him "wild and daring." And she takes on this task with resentful fury, leading the boy astray and, in the process, learning to manipulate differences in power, class, background, and ambition. Only slowly does she come to understand that George Harding himself is watching her. And waiting.

Product details

• Authors: Lynn Freed
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.04.2010
• EAN: 9780547336039
• ISBN: 978-0-547-33603-9
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical romance, Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Fiction: general and literary, Historical crime and mysteries, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Religious and spiritual fiction, c 1811 to c 1820 (Regency period), Relating to Jewish people and groups, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / Regency, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Historical, FICTION: Coming of Age, FICTION: Psychological, FICTION: Jewish, FICTION: World Literature / Africa / Southern Africa