Quartet
20 April 2017
Imprint: Bello
Synopsis
The quartet at the heart of this delightful novel are the four Gainsborough siblings: beautiful but vain Lorna, ultra-sensitive Adrian, nature-loving Laurence and thoughtful, strange little Jenifer.
We join them in 1900 – four happy children at the heart of a loving family, idolizing their strikingly beautiful mother, shrinking from their emotionally damaged Aunt Lena and ill-tempered governess, Miss Marchant....
Details
20 April 2017
304 pages
9781509859498
Imprint: Bello
Reviews
It is beautifully done, full of invention and sympathy.A. G. Macdonell, The Bystander
Miss Crompton is a master-hand at child characterisationThe Star