Winds of Heaven
by Monica Dickens
SNT 1971-11-06
128K
If Monica Dickens means nothing more to you than horsey books and no-nonsense memoirs of nursing and service, then this eloquent novel about the genteel poverty of a widow shunted between her three egotistical daughters is a fine corrective. Louise discovers her husband had lost all their money and she must depend on her childrens' charity, moving between Miriam and her home-counties pretensions; Eva's fragile London world of theatre and treacherous lovers; and a muddy smallholding where the slovenly Anne ignores her. Though Louise is a slight kind of Lear, her tragedy plays out in postwar Lyons Corner Houses and the ill-heated rooms of an out-of-season hotel.
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Thank you, sir.
Not my cuppa, but I'll put it on the shelf for others ... :>)
My Sentiments exactly LOL ------------- Rick