I suppose I was lonelier than I knew.Its the 1960s, and Maude Barrington, now in her seventies, has kept life firmly at bay since the deaths of her three brothers in World War I. But when an unexpected visitor convinces Maude to visit old friends in France (and an old nemesis, who persistently calls her "the snowwoman"), she is brought face to face with the longsuppressed emotions, sorrows, and misunderstandings of the past. Upon her return to London, she finds her frozen life invaded by a young mother and her son (born on great aunt Dorotheas sofa, no less) who have been more or less adopted by her longtime maid Millie. And Maude finds the snow of years of bitterness beginning to melt away.In The SnowWoman, first published in 1969 and out of print for decades, Stella Gibbons has created one of her most complex and poignant, yet still very funny, talesof aging, coming to terms, and rediscovering life. This new edition features an introduction by twentiethcentury womens historian Elizabeth Crawford.Stella Gibbons sees people as they really are but she observes them so lovingly as well as acutely that one loves them too Elizabeth Goudge

Binding: Paperback;216 pages; Publisher: Dean Street Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 337.27 g; Dimensions: N/A

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