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Nightingale Wood
Stella Gibbons
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Description for Nightingale Wood
Paperback. A modern, satirical fairytale that has been unavailable for decades, by the author of COLD COMFORD FARM Series: VMC. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 272.
'Gibbons is superb on middle class life' SAM JORDISON, GUARDIAN
'A sharp-edged romantic comedy, we have a chance to see what we've been missing' DAILY MAIL
'What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it' SOPHIE DAHL
Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband's family in a joyless old house. There's Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop girl and two unlovely sisters-in-law, one ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Virago Modern Classics
Condition
New
Weight
271g
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844085729
SKU
V9781844085729
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-99
About Stella Gibbons
Stella Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989) was born in London. She studied journalism at University College, London and worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. She married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first novel ... Read more
Reviews for Nightingale Wood
Gibbons's heroines are plucky, determined and quietly hedonistic. But she can do melancholy with the best of them, too, not to mention melodrama
Guardian
What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it. It is a rare unadulterated pleasure and high time for its encore
Sophie Dahl Nightingale Wood is ... Read more
Guardian
What luxury to stumble upon this quirky book, and the fascinating modern woman who wrote it. It is a rare unadulterated pleasure and high time for its encore
Sophie Dahl Nightingale Wood is ... Read more