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THE
WINTER
HOUSE
Judith
Lennox
From
the
back
cover
of
the
book:
For
three
girls
growing
up
in
the
Fens
in
the
tumultuous
years
between
two
world
wars,
the
Winter
House
was
a
special
place
of
refuge
and
friendship.
Winter
or
summer,
they
would
meet
at
the
old
wooden
house
by
the
waterside
to
confide
all
the
secretes
and
heartaches
of
childhood
and
adolescence.
There
was
Robin,
idealistic
and
clever,
destined
for
Cambridge;
Maia,
the
most
beautiful
and
ambitious
of
the
three,
looking
for
a
rich
husband;
and
quiet
Helen,
living
under
the
seemingly
benevolent
tyranny
of
her
widower
father,
the
local
vicar.
Adulthood
separates
the
three
girls,
and
Robin,
abandoning
ideas
of
university,
goes
to
London
to
work
amongst
the
poor,
meeting
there
her
first
great
love,
the
handsome
but
brittle
Francis.
Maia's
ideal
marriage
to
a
wealthy
man
ends
in
tragedy
and
Helen,
meanwhile,
kept
in
near-imprisonment
by
her
obsessively
protective
father,
has
her
very
sanity
threatened.
Hugely
satisfying,
dramatic
and
romantic,
The
Winter
House
tells
how
these
women
find
their
way
through
a
world
changed
for
ever,
through
political
and
social
upheaval,
through
the
Spanish
Civil
War
and
to
the
brink
of
the
Second
World
War.
Set
against
a
backdrop
of
London,
Paris
and
the
unchanging
English
countryside,
it
is
a
novel
of
rare
warmth
and
beauty.
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Publisher:
Corgi
Conditon:
Fair,
cover
wear
and discolouration
of
pages
Format
&
Size:
Paperback, 573
pages,
weight
274g
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