As Best We Can - Brossura

Tessa West

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0954362748 ISBN 13: 9780954362744

Casa editrice: Fox Books, 2014

Riassunto

It's Suffolk. The Bailey family's two sons Conrad and Lawrence join the colours and are sent to different theatres of war. Their parents and younger sister Elly stay on a farm belonging to their relations, in West Stow, a few miles outside Bury St Edmunds. Life changes for everyone. Hattie Bailey works as a VAD with the Red Cross at Ampton Military Hospital, while Eric escorts wounded soldiers off trains arriving at Ingham. Letters home bring news from France and from India's North West frontier. Elly, hampered by asthma and often left to her own devices, tries to discover what's happening at Elveden and to make sense of what she reads in the Bury Free Press. The conflict goes on and on, but eventually peace brings hope for the future and new challenges.

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L'autore:

Tessa West is the author of four novels, each set in East Anglia. She has also written a biography of John Howard the prison reformer, poetry and cycle ride booklets. She has been writer-in-residence for the Port Authority in Great Yarmouth, and recently she was awarded a grant from the Arts Council for an exhibition of a collection of maps and poems. While writing her biography of John Howard she won an Arthur Welton award. After a career in prisons as a teacher, a manager and an assistant governor, she served two terms as an Independent Member of the Parole Board. She has won a Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship, and, at Cambridge University, a Cropwood Fellowship. Her adult life has been in Suffolk, where she enjoys cycling and canoeing.

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• Editore: Fox Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0954362748
• ISBN 13: 9780954362744
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 280