Name: The Greengage Summer

Author: Rumer Godden
Year: 1958
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Young adult, Classic
Culture: France

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ISBNs:
9780330327787
033032778X
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children'€™s guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot'€™s devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all . . . They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones . . . The Greengage Summer is Rumer Godden'€™s tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne '€“ which became a memorable film starring Kenneth More and Susannah York. '€˜An exciting tale, this novel has both charm and atmosphere, and Miss Godden recaptures with an easy unsentimental naturalness the unfocused vision of adolescence'€™ Evening Standard '€˜One of the finest English novelists'€™ Orville Prescott
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