Early in 1941, having just seen off at Euston Station the two young men whom she has loved for the best part of her seventeen years, Juno Marlowe is hurrying down a London street with her ill-fitting shoes in her hands. Airplanes thunder overhead; a battery of guns opens up. When a stick of bombs falls she cowers, then takes to her heels in flight. She is rescued from this nightmare by a gaunt stranger, frail and older than his years, and, guiding her up his front stairs, he offers her the protection of his house. Given this respite from the bleakness of having no home and no family to turn to, Juno first encounters tragedy, then a series of events which take her to a house in the West Country and the blossoming of an English spring into which war only occasionally intrudes. Here she may find peace; here she will no longer be part of the furniture. Part of the Furniture completes the triptych of wartime novels begun with The Camomile Lawn and A Sensible Life. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
TransWorld LTD
ISBN-13
9780593041154
eBay Product ID (ePID)
91295950
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Part of the Furniture
Author
Mary Wesley
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Books
Publication Year
1997
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
480g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Mary Wesley
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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