The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West - ISBN: 9781844086993
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Music, passion, and near ruin: one family’s vibrant London life.

The Fountain Overflows

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  • Paperback

    448 pages

  • Release Date

    1 March 2011

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Summary

Rose Aubrey is one of a family of four children. Their father, Piers, is the disgraced son of an Irish landowning family, a violent, noble and quite unscrupulous leader of popular causes. His Scottish wife, Clare, is an artist, a tower of strength, fanatically devoted to a musical future for her daughters.

This is the story of their life in south London, a life threatened by Piers’s streak of tragic folly which keeps them on the verge of financial ruin and social disgrace …

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9781844086993
ISBN-10:1844086992
Author:Rebecca West, Amanda Craig
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Virago Press Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:448
Release Date:1 March 2011
Weight:306g
Dimensions:197mm x 131mm x 30mm
Series:Virago Modern Classics
What They're Saying

Critics Review

  • ‘So vivid and lovable are her subjects, a crisis-ridden musical and literary family, that to finish the book is to suffer a bereavement.
  • ‘It is improbable that even the most scrupulous reader could name a more poignantly and lovingly told tale, a more beautiful piece of writing - NYTimes

    * ‘So vivid and lovable are her subjects, a crisis-ridden musical and literary family, that to finish the book is to suffer a bereavement. - Mail on Sunday.

    * ‘It is improbable that even the most scrupulous reader could name a more poignantly and lovingly told tale, a more beautiful piece of writing - NYTimes

    * ‘So vivid and lovable are her subjects, a crisis-ridden musical and literary family, that to finish the book is to suffer a bereavement. - Mail on Sunday.
About The Author

Rebecca West

Rebecca West was born in London in 1892. She was educated in Edinburgh and began to appear in print as a journalist in London as early as 1911. She was created a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1959 and died in March 1983.

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