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Enbury Heath

Author: Stella Gibbons  

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Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage

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Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage

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Gibbons' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story about three siblings living in a Hampstead Heath cottage'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?'Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral for their estranged father, they wonder what will become of them now that the last connection to their difficult childhood has been severed. What have they inherited - financially and emotionally - to guide them to adulthood, and build a new home together?Enbury Heath is a semi-autobiographical account of the years which Gibbons and her brothers spent living in a cottage in Hampstead Heath- a wonderfully astute, bittersweet novel about family, grief, money, and the pleasures of London.

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About the Author

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) was an immediate success and won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Nightingale Wood (1938), The Bachelor (1944), Westwood (1946), and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

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Publisher
Vintage Publishing | Vintage Classics
Published
5th August 2021
Pages
320
ISBN
9781784877194

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