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The Fountain Overflows
Rebecca West
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Description for The Fountain Overflows
Paperback. * Set during the Edwardian era, this is a poignant and beautifully told story of family love and family feuds, and of musical and artistic aspirations. * Introduction by Rebecca West's biographer, Victoria Glendinning. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 302.
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 . . .
'A book bursting with love and vitality' ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
VMC
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844086993
SKU
V9781844086993
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About 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.
Reviews for The Fountain Overflows
'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.
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