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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
March 2012
On Sale: February 28, 2012
Featuring: Coral Glynn
242 pages
ISBN: 0374299013
EAN: 9780374299019
Kindle: B005N8ZH84
Hardcover / e-Book
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Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House, an isolated manse in the
English countryside, early in the very wet spring of 1950,
to nurse the elderly Mrs. Hart, who is dying of cancer. Hart
House is also inhabited by Mrs. Prence, the perpetually
disgruntled housekeeper, and Major Clement Hart, Mrs. Hart’s
war-ravaged son, who is struggling to come to terms with his
latent homosexuality. When a child’s game goes violently
awry in the woods surrounding Hart House, a great
shadow—love, perhaps—descends upon its inhabitants. Like the
misguided child’s play, other seemingly random events—a torn
dress, a missing ring, a lost letter—propel Coral and
Clement into the dark thicket of marriage. A period novel observed through a refreshingly gimlet eye,
Coral Glynn explores how quickly need and desire can blossom
into love, and just as quickly transform into something less
categorical. Borrowing from themes and characters prevalent
in the work of mid-twentieth-century British women writers,
Peter Cameron examines how we live and how we love—with his
customary empathy and wit.
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