In Sunshine or in Shadow

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Brougham is an imposing and beautiful house, the stateliest of stately homes, but for Lady Artemis Deverill it proves a lonely, loveless place, where only the servants are on her side, and her stepmother's cruelty shadows her young life. Born in downtown Boston, Eleanor Milligan knows only poverty and a continuing battle against bullying brothers and a sadistic father. Both girls face early sorrow and rejection, and both come to depend on the kindness of people outside their families in order to survive the misery of childhood.
Perhaps because of the difference in their backgrounds, as well as the marked contrast in their temperaments, from the moment the two girls meet on a liner sailing to Ireland they are fated to become friends; so when Eleanor's Cousin Rose asks not only Eleanor but also Artemis to stay on at Strand House, County Cork, it marks the start of what is for both of them an idyllic time.
Strand House, unlike Artemis' birthplace, is a place of warmth and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Brougham is an imposing and beautiful house, the stateliest of stately homes, but for Lady Artemis Deverill it proves a lonely, loveless place, where only the servants are on her side, and her stepmother's cruelty shadows her young life. Born in downtown Boston, Eleanor Milligan knows only poverty and a continuing battle against bullying brothers and a sadistic father. Both girls face early sorrow and rejection, and both come to depend on the kindness of people outside their families in order to survive the misery of childhood.
Perhaps because of the difference in their backgrounds, as well as the marked contrast in their temperaments, from the moment the two girls meet on a liner sailing to Ireland they are fated to become friends; so when Eleanor's Cousin Rose asks not only Eleanor but also Artemis to stay on at Strand House, County Cork, it marks the start of what is for both of them an idyllic time.
Strand House, unlike Artemis' birthplace, is a place of warmth and informality; nevertheless, it seems as though nothing will be quite the same when Artemis introduces the devastatingly handsome artist, Hugo Tanner, into the agreeable and eccentric household. But in a sunlit pre-war summer, all three become emotionally entwined, destined to remain so, despite the turmoil of varying sentiments each induces in the others.
From the stately homes of England to the streets of Boston, from the Irish countryside to war-torn London, Charlotte Bingham's powerful new novel is as full of warmth, laughter and genuine feeling as Artemis, and Eleanor's enduring relationship - a wondorlul and moving testimony to the strength of female friendship. Vissza