Farundell
By: L.R. Fredericks
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781445854298; 9781445854304
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Psychological aspects; Young men; History; Upper class families; Fiction
Description: In the golden summer of 1924 Paul Asher, shattered by the trauma of the Western Front, comes to Farundell, an idyllic country house set deep in the Oxfordshire countryside. There, he falls under the spell of the rich and eccentric Damory family: the celebrated Amazon explorer Perceval, Lord Damory, now blind and dying, whose story echoes Paul's own strange dreams, brilliant thirteen-year-old Alice, on the cusp of adulthood and, like Paul, a seeker of knowledge and, most fatefully, the wild and beautiful Sylvie, with whom he falls passionately in love. Before summer's end, there will be tragedy, comedy, resolution and, for Paul, a revelation that will change his life forever.
Notes: Originally published: London: John Murray, 2010.

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