Frost In May
$20.40
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
8 May 2018
Summary
‘Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail’ - Hermione Lee, *Observer*
With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley
Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349010281 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349010285 |
| Author: | Antonia White, Tessa Hadley |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 8 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 190g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Intense, troubling, semi-miraculous … IT is not the only school story to be a classic; but I can think of no other that is a work of art– Elizabeth Bowen
Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail - Observer
Evelyn Waugh called [her] one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deservesIntense, troubling, semi-miraculous … a work of art - Elizabeth BowenA masterpiece. Beautifully written, it is a calm and factual record of the slow death of the soulA small masterpiece, the compelling and passionate story of young girls at a repressive religious school, told with such lyricism and elegant economy, such subtle understandingAbout The Author
Antonia White
Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul’s School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May (1922), The Lost Traveller (1950), The Sugar House (1952) and Beyond the Glass (1954).
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