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Rising Tide - Couverture souple

Keane, Molly

 
9780860684725: Rising Tide
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0860684725 ISBN 13 : 9780860684725
Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

In 1900 Lady Charlotte French-McGrath is mistress of Garonlea, a huge gothic house in Ireland. She rules her household and her family -- husband Ambrose and children Muriel, Enid, Violet, Diana and Desmond -- with a rod of iron. Desmond's marriage to the beautiful, lively Cynthia and, several years later, the onset of the First World War are the two events which finally, and irrevocably, break Lady Charlotte's matriarchal hold. Cynthia enters the Jazz Age and on the surface her life passes in a whirl of fox-hunting, drinking and love-making.

But the ghosts of Garonlea are only biding their time: they know the source of their power, a secret handed on from one generation to the next...

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À propos de l'auteur

Molly Keane was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, in 1904 into a 'rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family' who gave her little education at the hands of governesses. Molly Keane's interests when young were 'hunting and horses and having a good time'; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.

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Éditeur
Virago Press Ltd
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0860684725
ISBN 13 
9780860684725
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
336
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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