The Gale of the World: Henry Williamson

Synopsis:

The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight.

Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor he is as ever haunted by the past, and his pro-German views bring him under constant fear of attack. A love affair, the death of his father, and tender relationship with his cousin's two daughters are particularly outstanding in a novel full of incident; and this final novel in A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight completes the history of Phillip Maddison while at the same time rounding off an unsurpassed picture of fifty swiftly-changing years.

Tags:

Categorised as:
Fiction
Sub-categories:
General Fiction
Genres & Themes:
Faber Finds; Family Saga; Post-War
The Gale of the World book cover

Selected edition:
Paperback
ISBN:
9780571279524
Published:
16.06.2011
No of pages:
364
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