The Land of Green Ginger - Couverture souple

Holtby, Winifred

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0915864258 ISBN 13 : 9780915864256

Editeur : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1977

Synopsis

Book by Winifred Holtby

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War. Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her he's been given the world to wear as a golden ball. Joanna believes him and marries him, but the fabled shores recede into the distance when, after the war, Teddy returns in ill health. The magic land turns out to be the harsh reality of motherhood and life on a Yorkshire farm. Yet still she dares to dream.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Winifred Holtby (1898-1935), journalist, critic, feminist, pacifist and author won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize with SOUTH RIDING, her last novel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Academy Chicago Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0915864258
• ISBN 13: 9780915864256
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312