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Half the World in Winter
Maggie Joel
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Description for Half the World in Winter
Paperback. A captivating drama of secrets and tragedies in a Victorian family adrift in their rapidly changing world. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 406.
It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and his eighteen-year-old daughter Dinah looks for fulfilment in unusual places. Only the housekeeper, the estimable Mrs Logan, seems able to carry on. A train accident in a provincial town on the railway Lucas owns claims the life of a young child and, amid the public outcry, a father journeys to London demanding justice. As he arrives in the city on a frozen January morning he finds a ... Read more
It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and his eighteen-year-old daughter Dinah looks for fulfilment in unusual places. Only the housekeeper, the estimable Mrs Logan, seems able to carry on. A train accident in a provincial town on the railway Lucas owns claims the life of a young child and, amid the public outcry, a father journeys to London demanding justice. As he arrives in the city on a frozen January morning he finds a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781925266528
SKU
V9781925266528
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Ref
99-10
About Maggie Joel
Maggie Joel is a British-born writer now living in Sydney. She has been writing fiction and non-fiction for over ten years. Her first two novels The Past and Other Lies and The Second-Last Woman in England were published by Constable & Robinson.
Reviews for Half the World in Winter
A sombre but fascinating tale.
The Australian
A page-turner full of detail and colour.
Saturday Age
Maggie Joel's new novel takes us upstairs, downstairs and into the darkest corners of a Victorian household... If you like robust dramas with the occasional dash of dark humour, then you will love this.
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
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The Australian
A page-turner full of detail and colour.
Saturday Age
Maggie Joel's new novel takes us upstairs, downstairs and into the darkest corners of a Victorian household... If you like robust dramas with the occasional dash of dark humour, then you will love this.
Daily Telegraph (Sydney)
As ... Read more