The Lost Traveller
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2006
Summary
When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls’ school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world. Against the background of the First World War, Clara experiences the confusions of adolescence - its promise, its threat of change. She longs for love, yet fears it, and wonders what the future will hold. Then tragedy strikes and her childhood …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083695 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083691 |
| Author: | Antonia White |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 134mm x 201mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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‘Carries on the tradition of Charlotte Bront
An admirable piece of work … it would not be going too far to say that the book carries on the tradition of Charlotte Bronte in its unfolding of a young girl’s experiences in coming to grips with the world - TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Antonia White’s sustained portrayal of Clara’s budding into womanhood is a masterpiece - BOSTON GlobeAbout 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 over thirty novels from French. She died in Sussex in 1980.
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