Name: The Sidmouth Letters: The Tribute; Hetty Sleeping; Transit Passengers; For he Heard the Loud Bassoon; Lychees for Tone; The Dickies; The Great, Grand,. Gothic; The Sidmouth Letters (Abacus Books) (in English)
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Author: Jane Gardam
ISBN: 9780349114088

portada The Sidmouth Letters: The Tribute; Hetty Sleeping; Transit Passengers; For he Heard the Loud Bassoon; Lychees for Tone; The Dickies; The Great, Grand,. Gothic; The Sidmouth Letters (Abacus Books) (in English)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Penguin

Author

Jane Gardam

Synopsis "The Sidmouth Letters: The Tribute; Hetty Sleeping; Transit Passengers; For he Heard the Loud Bassoon; Lychees for Tone; The Dickies; The Great, Grand,. Gothic; The Sidmouth Letters (Abacus Books) (in English)"

Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny; we await- with dread- a stranger to tea in an Engliish home; we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss.