The Rising Tide
$27.78
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
7 August 2006
Summary
One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen …
Lady Charlotte French-McGrath has successfully ruled over her family with a rod of iron until the arrival of Cynthia: beautiful, young, talented, selfish - and engaged to her son Desmond.
When Cynthia enters the Jazz Age, on the surface her life passes in a whirl of hunting, drinking and romance. But the ghosts of Garonlea are only biding their time: they know the source of their powe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844083268 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844083268 |
| Author: | Molly Keane, Polly Devlin |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 7 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 236g |
| Dimensions: | 129mm x 200mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Molly Keane … is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart… - V.S. Pritchett
Psychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit - IRISH TIMESThe characterisation of women is first class - Sebastian FaulksShe is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minutae of human behaviour - Polly DevlinMolly Keane … is robust about sinful human nature and the intrigues of the heart… - V.S. PritchettPsychologically sharp, socially knowing and closely knit - IRISH TIMESThe characterisation of women is first class - Sebastian FaulksShe is akin to Jane Austen in her feeling for the minutae of human behaviour - Polly DevlinAbout The Author
Molly Keane
Molly Keane was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland, in 1904 into a ‘rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family’ who gave her little education at the hands of governesses. Molly Keane’s interests when young were ‘hunting and horses and having a good time’; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.
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