Anne Youngson
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Set against the Blitz in London, a young womans extraordinary journey of selfdiscovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.A March Best Book in RedNOTE PERFECT East Riding MagazineAN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER Nina StibbeI used to believe the world had been created for me every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge. 1939, London From McPhails Passage to Kensingtons Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being flagrantly foreign to the locals, she becomes an efficient gobetween for the upperclass ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plainspeaking and sightless Major Inchbold that Roses dizzying journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever, as she drinks tea at the vicarage and stands up for the lower orders. But Roses greatest dilemma is yet to come, as she must decide where her home and her heart really lies.In Anne Youngsons wry and sublimely understated prose, this unique and beautiful story of love, class and belonging is also a profound and intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.Praise for ANNE YOUNGSON Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a...
Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd; Classification: FJMS; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 24
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Set against the Blitz in London, a young womans extraordinary journey of selfdiscovery and an intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.A March Best Book in RedNOTE PERFECT East Riding MagazineAN EXTRAORDINARY NEW WRITER Nina StibbeI used to believe the world had been created for me every stone and grain of sand. As I grew older, I began to think of myself as something tacked on to the edge. 1939, London From McPhails Passage to Kensingtons Grand Palace Hotel, Rose Dunbar is evacuated from her humble home on the Rock of Gibraltar and dropped into a chaotic city of falling bombs, perplexing class rules and bad weather. Despite being flagrantly foreign to the locals, she becomes an efficient gobetween for the upperclass ladies helping out with the war effort and her own tribe of noisy displaced families.It is only when she is shifted to the countryside to become secretary to the plainspeaking and sightless Major Inchbold that Roses dizzying journey to womanhood will become more surreal than ever, as she drinks tea at the vicarage and stands up for the lower orders. But Roses greatest dilemma is yet to come, as she must decide where her home and her heart really lies.In Anne Youngsons wry and sublimely understated prose, this unique and beautiful story of love, class and belonging is also a profound and intimate meditation on what it takes to find our place in the world.Praise for ANNE YOUNGSON Tender, wise and moving, Meet Me at the Museum is a...
Binding: Paperback;368 pages; Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd; Classification: FJMS; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 24
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