The Loving Spirit
$27.13
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
5 December 2003
Summary
Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family.
Janet’s loving spirit - the passionate yearning for adventure and for love - is passed down to her son, and through him to his children’s children. As generations of the family struggle against hardshi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080939 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844080935 |
| Author: | Michele Roberts, Daphne du Maurier |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 5 December 2003 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 126mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Miss du Maurier creates on the grand scale … a rich vein of humour and satire, observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic are here
Daphne du Maurier’s lushly written novel … is a rapturous celebration of the beauties of the Cornish landscape - Michele Roberts
Du Maurier creates on the grand scale … a rich vein of humour and satire, observation, sympathy, courage, a sense of the romantic are here - ObserverShe wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense, and she was, too, a writer of fearless originality - GuardianNo other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification … She satisfied all the questionable criteria of popular fiction, and yet satisfied the exacting requirements of “real literature”, something very few novelists ever doAbout The Author
Michele Roberts
Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989) was born in London, England. In 1931 her first novel, The Loving Spirit was published. A biography of her father and three other novels followed, but it was the novel Rebecca that launched her into the literary stratosphere and made her one of the most popular authors of her day. In 1932, du Maurier married Major Frederick Browning with whom she had three children.
Many of du Maurier’s bestselling novels and short stories were adapted into award-winning films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. In 1969, du Maurier was awarded the Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE). She lived most of her life in Cornwall and died there which is the setting for many of her books.
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