num_pages: 256
description: In 1914, when Nicandra is eight, all is well in the grand Irish estate of Deer Forest. Maman is beautiful and adored. Dada, silent and small, mooches contendedly around the stables. Aunt Tossie, of the giant heart and bosom, is widowed but looks splendid in weeds. The butler, the groom, the landsteward, the maids, the men—each has a place and knows it. Then, astonishingly, the perfect surface is Maman does something too dreadful ever to be spoken of. "What next? Who to love?" asks Nicaranda. And through her growing up and marriage her answer is to swamp those around her with kindness—while gradually the great house crumbles under a weight of manners and misunderstanding.
language: English
title: Loving And Giving
titlecomplete: Loving And Giving (Virago Modern Classics)
characters: Aunt Tossie, Nicandra, Dada
genres: Womens, 20th Century, Ireland, Modern Classics, Novels, Irish Literature, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 255
places: Ireland
publisher: Virago