The Magic Apple Tree - Rilegato

Hill, Susan

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ISBN 10: 1902421256 ISBN 13: 9781902421254

Casa editrice: Long Barn Books Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

After marrying the eminent Shakespeare scholar, Stanley Wells, and with the arrival of their daughter Jessica, Susan and her family left town life to take up residence in the fen country, at 'Moon Cottage'. THE MAGIC APPLE TREE is a record of one year in the life of the family and the rural scene they became absorbed by.
Susan Hill has the ability to express atmosphere and natural beauty and has an unflinching acceptance of life's cruelties and terrors. She enjoys keeping hens but can't help admiring the machismo of the hunting fox. She reveres living creatures but 'sits on the fence' concerning the fox-hunting debate. She agonises over eating delicate spring lamb but frankly admits that she'll relish lamb chops later on. Sensitive and spiritual, but never sentimental, she gives the reader her subtle response to the country scene and its inhabitants, and also allows us to inspect her vegetable patch and her larder. She gets tremendous satisfaction out of raising her own veg - she's positively lyrical about celeriac - but is half-hearted about growing flowers unless they 'earn their living'. She's fond of making chutney, pickled plums, damson cheese and eldflower ice-cream, but draws the line at wine-making. These details, gardening tips and old-fashioned country recipes are fascinating.

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L'autore:

SUSAN HILL has been one of the UK`s foremost and best loved novelists for forty years. Her literary fiction has won the Whitbread, John Llewellyn Rhys and Somerset Maugham Prizes and been shortlisted for the Booker.
Her novels I`M THE KING OF THE CASTLE, THE WOMAN IN BLACK and STRANGE MEETING have been set texts for GCSE, A and AS Level for many years.
The play adapted from her bestselling ghost story THE WOMAN IN BLACK has been running in London`s West End for 18 years and around the world.
Her crime trilogy, THE VARIOUS HAUNTS OF MEN, THE PURE IN HEART and THE RISK OF DARKNESS, featuring DCI SIMON SERRAILLER have been high on the bestseller lists in the last three years.

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• Editore: Long Barn Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1902421256
• ISBN 13: 9781902421254
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256
• Disegnatore: Lawrence John