Fülszöveg
"Now she was beginning to wake out of her apathy. It is not too late,
she told herself, to do something different with my life!"
The offer of a summer post as governess to fhe granddaughter of a
famous actress seems a dazzling prospect to Ellen Fenwick, far
removed from the fireside teas and prize-givings of her Yorkshire
high school. And the Villa Meridiana, surveying the Tuscan%ills,
with their vines and rows of silvery olives, provides a dreamlike
setting for the new life she anticipates. Here she tastes her first
cocktail, cuts her hair, becomes "Fenny"— and falls in love. But in
this closeknit expatriate community, relationships are often not what
they seem: as fascism threatens the heart of Italy, Fenny is forced to
come to terms with both emotional and political realities. Moving
from 1933 to 1949, this is a stirring account of Fenny's development
and of the experiences which shape the resilient woman she becomes.
"Certainly Lettice Cooper's finest novel"—...
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Fülszöveg
"Now she was beginning to wake out of her apathy. It is not too late,
she told herself, to do something different with my life!"
The offer of a summer post as governess to fhe granddaughter of a
famous actress seems a dazzling prospect to Ellen Fenwick, far
removed from the fireside teas and prize-givings of her Yorkshire
high school. And the Villa Meridiana, surveying the Tuscan%ills,
with their vines and rows of silvery olives, provides a dreamlike
setting for the new life she anticipates. Here she tastes her first
cocktail, cuts her hair, becomes "Fenny"— and falls in love. But in
this closeknit expatriate community, relationships are often not what
they seem: as fascism threatens the heart of Italy, Fenny is forced to
come to terms with both emotional and political realities. Moving
from 1933 to 1949, this is a stirring account of Fenny's development
and of the experiences which shape the resilient woman she becomes.
"Certainly Lettice Cooper's finest novel"— Storm Jameson
Lettice Cooper was born in Eccles, Lancashire, but lived in Yorkshire
until 1939, when she moved to London to join the staff of Time and
Tide. A one time President of the English Centre of PEN, she has
published adult and children's fictioji and biographies of Robert
Louis Stevenson and Dickens in a distinguished writing career which
has spanned more than sixty years. \
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"Sewing" by Harold Knight.
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