Strangers: A Family Romance - Hardcover

Tennant, Emma

 
9780224050876: Strangers: A Family Romance
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0224050877 ISBN 13: 9780224050876
Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

Based on fact, but told with the imagination of a novelist, Strangers is the story of the author's family, the Tennants. Margot Asquith and Pamela Tennant (nee Wyndham), warring sisters-in-law; Pamela's children, her 'jewels' - Clare the wilful beauty, Stephen Tennant the outrageous aesthete, David the nightclub king, and the steady, sensible Christopher who becomes head of the family when the eldest brother Bim dies on the Somme - these are some of the characters brought to suddent and not always respectable life in this funny, tounching and sometimes shocking novel. Their antics, dreams and grief are witnessed by the maid Louisa, and played out chiefly at Glen, the castle in the Borders of Scotland, 'forbidding, frivolous and cold', where the young narrator pulls from long-sealed cupboards the stories of her family's past. But as the secrets emerge the myth woven around the glamorous figures of the past is both enhanced and dispelled. Haunting and compelling, Strangers presents a family and its young detective in a startling light.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Emma Tennant was born in London and spent most of her childhood in Scotland. Her novels include The Bad Sister, Faustine and Pemberley. She has three grown-up children and lives in West London.

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Verlag
Jonathan Cape
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0224050877
ISBN 13 
9780224050876
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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