ENGLISH

Summer Will Show

By Warner , Claire , Sylvia Townsend;Harman

Book information

Publisher
NYRB Classics;Random House Publisher Services
ISBN
9781590173169, 9781590174067, 1590173163
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
313 kB (320786 bytes)
Pages
215 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Sophia Willoughby, a young Englishwoman from an aristocratic family and a person of strong opinions and even stronger will, has packed her cheating husband off to Paris. He can have his tawdry mistress. She intends to devote herself to the serious business of raising her two children in proper Tory fashion. Then tragedy strikes: the children die, and Sophia, in despair, finds her way to Paris, arriving just in time for the revolution of 1848. Before long she has formed the unlikeliest of close relations with Minna, her husband's sometime mistress, whose dramatic recitations, based on her hair-

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