Iris and Ruby

Rosie Thomas

ISBN 10: 0007173547 / ISBN 13: 9780007173549

Editore: Harper, 2006

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Leichte Risse. Stiflingly quiet, Iris Black's Cairo house is suddenly disturbed by the arrival of her troubled and wilful granddaughter, Ruby. Teenage Ruby has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn't seen for many years. This title offers a story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family.

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• Titolo: Iris and Ruby
• Editore: Harper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0007173547
• ISBN 13: 9780007173549
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Fine

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Riassunto

A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven away from England by her fraught relationship with her own mother, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn t seen for years. An unlikely bond develops as Ruby helps Iris document her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, and of her one true love the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux whom she lost to the ravages of war. This lost love shaped Iris s past and will affect Ruby s future in ways they could not have imagined...

Informazioni sull?autore

Rosie Thomas is the author of a number of celebrated novels, including the bestsellers The Kashmir Shawl, Iris and Ruby and Constance. Once she was established as a writer and her children were grown, she discovered a love of travelling and mountaineering. She has climbed in the Alps and the Himalayas, competed in the Peking to Paris car rally, spent time on a tiny Bulgarian research station in Antarctica and travelled the silk road through Asia. She lives in London.