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'Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians' Irish Times

William and Emily Crowne seem to have it all - they live a life of privilege and glamour in London the children of a successful poet attractive happy largely blind to the world around them. But life takes an unexpected turn when their mother dies and their father is caught up in the most scandalous and notorious of criminal trials. Suddenly effectively orphans their aunt takes them in and they grow up alongside their cousins Trevor and Charlotte. But tensions and jealousies are rife between the four and soon the Crowne children find that their father's notoriety will follow them into their adult lives with devastating consequences.
'Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians' Irish Times

William and Emily Crowne seem to have it all - they live a life of privilege and glamour in London the children of a successful poet attractive happy largely blind to the world around them. But life takes an unexpected turn when their mother dies and their father is caught up in the most scandalous and notorious of criminal trials. Suddenly effectively orphans their aunt takes them in and they grow up alongside their cousins Trevor and Charlotte. But tensions and jealousies are rife between the four and soon the Crowne children find that their father's notoriety will follow them into their adult lives with devastating consequences.
Über den Autor
Margaret Moore Kennedy (1896-1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was The Constant Nymph. She was a productive writer and several of her works were made into films.Kennedy's first novel had been The Ladies of Lyndon (1923). She went on to write over 20 novels as well as publishing a biography of Jane Austen and a study of the art of fiction, Outlaws on Parnassus.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Genre: Importe, Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780099595458
ISBN-10: 0099595451
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kennedy, Margaret
Hersteller: Vintage Classics
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 21 mm
Von/Mit: Margaret Kennedy
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2014
Gewicht: 0,404 kg
Artikel-ID: 131812316

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