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From a lioness of British literature, an absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and – worse – intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic London publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months. Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars: a city soaked in drizzle, peopled with flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked servicemen and aristocrats desperately clinging onto the past. Inventive, witty and empathetic, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the foremost novelists of our time.
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Before the War, Fay Weldon
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- Année de publication
- 2016
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- Titre
- Before the War
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Fay Weldon
- Éditeur
- Head of Zeus - GB
- Publié
- 2016
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 400
- ISBN10
- 1784082074
- ISBN13
- 9781784082079
- Séries
- Mots clés
- Fiction, Thème historique, Romans historiques, Seconde Guerre mondiale, Littérature britannique
- Évaluation
- 3,1 sur 5
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- From a lioness of British literature, an absorbing, inventive novel of love, death and aristocracy in inter-war London Consider Vivien in November 1922. She is twenty four, and a spinster. She wears fashionably droopy clothes, but she is plain and – worse – intelligent. At nearly six foot tall, she is known unkindly by her family as 'the giantess'. Fortunately, Vivien is rich, so she can travel to London and bribe a charismatic London publisher to marry her. What he does not know is that Vivien is pregnant with another's child, and will die in childbirth in just a few months. Fay Weldon, with one eye on the present and one on the past, offers Vivien's fate to the reader, along with that of London between the wars: a city soaked in drizzle, peopled with flat-chested flappers, shell-shocked servicemen and aristocrats desperately clinging onto the past. Inventive, witty and empathetic, this is a spellbinding historical novel from one of the foremost novelists of our time.