After Frank: A Fairy Tale - Couverture souple

Woolf, Vivienne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1909719161 ISBN 13 : 9781909719163

Editeur : Gainsborough House Press, 2019

Synopsis

Rose loves roses. She also believes there is an angel in every cloud. She dyes her hair the blonde of her childhood and bakes cakes with marrows from her garden, where she works wearing wellington boots over her shoes to save them, and remains there till the moon rises into the sky. Rose lives with her husband Frank, her other love, in a blue house in a seaside town where their lives are shaped by the rhythm of the tides and the rise and fall of the sun. Frank is a carpenter with one eye brown like winter and one green like spring. He is built solid as the wood he works with and is grounded where Rose is quirky. Whenever he finds time, he paces the seashore with his hands in his pockets, breathing in sea air, counting his steps and planning for his and Rose's future. When Rose and Frank are in their forties, they become parents to a daughter, whom they name Olive. Her birth is breech and she is born after a storm which blows all the petals from Rose's roses and the leaves of the olive tree on to the windows of their house. After her birth, everything changes. After Frank is a story about a mother's love for her daughter, about change and adapting to change and about knowing that not all problems can or need to be solved.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

This is Vivienne Woolf's second novel. Her first novel was The Singing Girl. A published journalist, who has co-authored a book about reminiscing, Vivienne Woolf has a degree in English literature and philosophy. Vivienne was born and grew up in South Africa. She has two sons and lives in London with her husband.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gainsborough House Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1909719161
• ISBN 13: 9781909719163
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible