The Fountain Overflows
$36.06
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2011
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 |
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| 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 |
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- ‘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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