Summer at Gaglow
Esther Freud
Summer at Gaglow
Esther Freud
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Summer, 1914. It is Emanuel's twenty-first birthday, and eleven-year-old Eva and her sisters are helping transform Gaglow for a glorious party. But their brother's arrival is overshadowed by the talk of war that comes with him from Hamburg, and when he is wrenched from the family to serve his country, Eva knows that nothing will be the same again.
'A perfectly paced piece of high-calibre storytelling' Observer 'Evocative and intriguing' Elle 'A shrewd and absorbing novel, a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination' New York Times Book Review 'Reading, you become sort of a tourist, delightedly snooping on how these others live ... Fresh, witty, ironic and touching' Independent on Sunday
Esther Freud was born in London in 1963. She trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was made into a feature film starring Kate Winslet. She has since written four other novels. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages. Her most recent novel was The Sea House.
'A perfectly paced piece of high-calibre storytelling' Observer 'Evocative and intriguing' Elle 'A shrewd and absorbing novel, a near-seamless meshing of family feeling, history and imagination' New York Times Book Review 'Reading, you become sort of a tourist, delightedly snooping on how these others live ... Fresh, witty, ironic and touching' Independent on Sunday
Esther Freud was born in London in 1963. She trained as an actress before writing her first novel, Hideous Kinky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was made into a feature film starring Kate Winslet. She has since written four other novels. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages. Her most recent novel was The Sea House.