A Perfect Explanation - Brossura

Anstruther, Eleanor

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0358306736 ISBN 13: 9780358306733

Casa editrice: Blackstone Pub, 2020

Riassunto

<div><b>Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize</b><br><br><b>A &#8220;superb debut&#8221;* novel&#8212;based on the story of the author&#8217;s grandmother&#8212;following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*<i>The Guardian</i>)</b><br> &#160;<br> 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.<br><br> 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&#8212;a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for &#163;500&#8212;that reverberated through the generations.<br><br> Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, <i>A Perfect Explanation</i> explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won.<br> &#160;</div>

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Informazioni sull?autore

<div>Eleanor Anstruther was born in London, educated at Westminster School, and read History of Art at Manchester University. &#160;She lives on a farm in Surrey with her twin boys.&#160;<i>A Perfect Explanation&#160;</i>is her debut novel.</div>

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackstone Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0358306736
• ISBN 13: 9780358306733
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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