The Sugar House
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
17 October 2006
Summary
The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance, she discarded four years before. A friendship but not a love match, the marriage is a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. But neither of them are children any more and their dream sugar house…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083794 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844083799 |
| Author: | Antonia White |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 17 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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“Evelyn Waugh called her one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deserves”
Absorbing, fascinating … written with extraordinary brilliance - Elizabeth Bowen
Antonia White evinces Clara’s breakdown, particularly the isolation and emptiness she experiences, with extraordinary economy and insight - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAbsorbing, fascinating … written with extraordinary brilliance - Elizabeth BowenAntonia White evinces Clara’s breakdown, particularly the isolation and emptiness she experiences, with extraordinary economy and insight - PUBLISHERS WEEKLYAbout The Author
Antonia White
Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London at St. Paul’s and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the Foreign Office, had four novels published and translated
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