Description
Product ID: | 9780340995693 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Novel in the Viola |
Authors: | Author: Natasha Solomons |
Page Count: | 400 |
Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List. In the spring of 1938 Elise Landau arrives at Tyneford, the great house on the bay. A bright young thing from Vienna forced to become a parlour-maid, she knows nothing about England, except that she won''t like it. As servants polish silver and serve drinks on the lawn, Elise wears her mother''s pearls beneath her uniform, and causes outrage by dancing with a boy called Kit. But war is coming and the world is changing. And Elise must change with it. |
Imprint Name: | Sceptre |
Publisher Name: | Hodder & Stoughton |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2011-05-12 |