The Heart of the Family by Elizabeth Goudge - ISBN: 9781473655973
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Secrets simmer in a family, where warmth can heal hidden pain.

The Heart of the Family

Book Three of The Eliot Chronicles

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    416 pages

  • Release Date

    29 August 2017

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Summary

The third in the classic trilogy of novels about the Eliots of Damerosehay. David Eliot finds his career as a successful and much acclaimed actor a definite strain and his brittle conversation and seeming arrogance earn him the dislike of his new secretary Sebastian Weber. But when he comes to stay at Damerosehay Sebastian learns that in the private world of his marriage and his children David is a very different person, and the warmth of his welcome there helps him to overcome his great pers…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781473655973
ISBN-10:1473655978
Author:Elizabeth Goudge
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:29 August 2017
Weight:289g
Dimensions:127mm x 193mm x 28mm
Series:The Eliot Chronicles
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Genuine discernment and poignancy - Sunday Times

Lively and charming - Observer

Leaves the reader with a warm glow in the emotions - Times Educational Supplement

Miss Goudge has the art of presenting men and women, to say nothing of children, as genuinely convincing persons, too human to be either wholly good or wholly bad - Scotsman

About The Author

Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900 in Wells, Somerset, where her father was Principal of Wells Theological College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career, her parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC, set in Guernsey, was a great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944) projected her to fame, netting a Literary Guild Award and a special prize of 30,000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed.

In her later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on April 1st, 1984.

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