Frost In May
$24.40
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2006
Summary
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 this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.
Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentrici…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083787 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083780 |
| Author: | Antonia White, Tessa Hadley, Elizabeth Bowen |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm 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’ Hermione Lee, Observer‘A masterpiece. Beautifully written, it is a calm and factual record of the slow death of the soul’ Selina HastingsAbout 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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