A Perfect Explanation - Couverture rigide

Anstruther, Eleanor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0358120853 ISBN 13 : 9780358120858

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

Synopsis

Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize

A “superb debut”* novel—based on the story of the author’s grandmother—following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian)

 

Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it.

A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events—a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500—that reverberated through the generations.

Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.

 

*The Guardian

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eleanor Anstruther was born in London, educated at Westminster School, and read History of Art at Manchester University.  She lives on a farm in Surrey with her twin boys. A Perfect Explanation is her debut novel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0358120853
• ISBN 13: 9780358120858
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
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