Westover

Zusatztext Miss Crompton is a master-hand at child characterisation Informationen zum Autor Richmal Crompton was born in Lancashire in 1890. The first story about William Brown appeared in Home magazine in 1919, and the first collection of William stories was published in book form three years later. In all, thirty-eight Just William books were published, the last, William the Lawless , in 1970 after Richmal Crompton’s death. Klappentext When Julia Gideon is widowed during the Second World War with five children to look after, she is left to manage Westover House with insufficient means for its upkeep. Urged by her solicitor brother to downsize and turn the family home into flats, she reluctantly agrees. However, as her new tenants move in it soon becomes clear that the manor house cannot contain the fiery personalities that are now living under its roof . . .From the hard up Godfrey and his wife Cynthia, who must share a flat with his brother Hubert and the uncouth Trixie; to Julia's elderly aunts, Letitia and Lucy, who aspire to very different lives in their old age; and the faux-French Mrs Pollock whose overbearing presence in her daughter Ann-Marie's life is protective to the point of suffocation - life is anything but simple at Westover. As heated relationships simmer away and family feuds break through to the surface, Richmal Crompton's Westover is a keenly observed study of what happens when domestic life doesn't run so smoothly . . . Zusammenfassung A classic novel from the author of Just William.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Richmal Crompton
• Edition: Bello
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 20.04.2017
• EAN: 9781509859603
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5960-3
• Pages: 216
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 12 mm
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 1940 to c 1949, C 1945 To C 1960, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War II