num_pages: 320
description: This new novel by Sir Philip Gibbs covers a recent period, in England (not yet past alas!) when the menace of war with Russia has cast a shadow over many minds, though it is hardly noticeable among the mass of folk who continue to play cricket on the village careens, and go on with daily duties and pleasures of life without panic.His scene is set in an English village and to some extent in a guest house run by an amusing Irishman and his wife, in one of the barns they give house room to a young Austrial painter who has formerly been in a concentration camp and is still poverty-stricken. Once a Communist, he exercises a somewhat unfortunate influence over the wife of a distinguished General who lives in the neighbourhood. This lady becomes an ardent pacifist, calls a public meeting in the village and creates a scandal of the first magnitude among her friends and neighbours and in her own home life. Her son, an officer cadet at Sandhurst, provides a love story which is idyllic but unhappy.
language: English
title: The Cloud Above the Green
titlecomplete: The Cloud Above the Green
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Chivers