Penguin Main Series 654. 1st Edition in the Main Series, published 1951.
This is a story of the magic of place-and of its effect on character. A large, decaying mansion in East Anglia is the background for the lives of four young children, a background which has all the more influence on them for the fact that their widowed mother, who lives in a world of her own, has very little time for them. When she suddenly dies, the family is split up, the children separated, and the empty house falls into decay and silence. But 17 yrs later, Catharine, the eldest daughter and inheritor of the house, has an idea that is unusual, absurd, extravagant. Why not reopen the house for one brief fortnight in the summer, make it come to life again for the last time-and bring back to it, for a holiday reunion, the four adults who so long ago had played here as children? What effect will it have on them now?
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some foxing to both covers. Minor wear to spineBinding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
Penguin Main Series 654. 1st Edition in the Main Series, published 1951.
This is a story of the magic of place-and of its effect on character. A large, decaying mansion in East Anglia is the background for the lives of four young children, a background which has all the more influence on them for the fact that their widowed mother, who lives in a world of her own, has very little time for them. When she suddenly dies, the family is split up, the children separated, and the empty house falls into decay and silence. But 17 yrs later, Catharine, the eldest daughter and inheritor of the house, has an idea that is unusual, absurd, extravagant. Why not reopen the house for one brief fortnight in the summer, make it come to life again for the last time-and bring back to it, for a holiday reunion, the four adults who so long ago had played here as children? What effect will it have on them now?
Condition grading: Good Minus. Some foxing to both covers. Minor wear to spineBinding tight. The photographs form part of the description.
