Description
| Product ID: | 9781911397274 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Four French Holidays |
| Subtitle: | Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France |
| Authors: | Author: Anne Hall |
| Page Count: | 144 |
| Subjects: | Biography: writers, Biography: literary, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, France |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating What four 20th c. novelists have made of their respective holidays in France. Four popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led to ‘Still Waters’ and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts. |
| Imprint Name: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Publisher Name: | Unicorn Publishing Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-03-01 |