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The Service Of Clouds by SUSAN HILL (Hardcover, 1998)

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First Hardback Edition Hardcover London : Chatto & Windus, 1998 First Hardback Edition. Language: English. ISBN: 1856192792. EAN: 9781856192798. Not price-clipped. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; (271 pages). Subjects; Children ; Fiction. Young women ; Fiction. Older women ; Fiction. Aged women ; Fiction. Drama. English literature; 20th century. English literature. Check out our eBay shop! With over 250,000 hand-picked First edition, Antiquarian and out-of-print titles in an exhaustive range of subjects, there is sure to be something to catch the eye of the bibliophile, the avid researcher or the casual reader. BZDB318 Unbranded ISBN: 1856192792 EAN: 9781856.

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At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is a touch of brilliant red, the ribbon on her hat. The rest is the white, cream, palest grey. It is a painting which leads Flora on, beckoning her away from her childhood, her complaining, clinging mother, pert younger sister, and the confines of a small community, to a pround and self-reliant future. But later, its image is to prove the catalyst for the most significant event in her life. Isolation, separation, solitude, betrayal. The shocks of life. The consolations and the beauty of death. A few piercing moments of absolute joy and perfect understanding. THE SERVICE OF CLOUDS is about these things, and also about love, loyalty, friendship, growing up and growing old.