A Long Way From Verona

A young girl aspiring to be a writer recounts her experiences growing up in England during the Second World War.

A Long Way from Verona

Literature & Fiction

Gardam, Jane.

Contemporary

Atheneum

Following her father's death, a sixteen-year-old English girl spends an unsettling summer convinced that she has lived before as Emily Bronte.

The Summer After the Funeral

Macmillan

Recounts the experiences of a little girl growing up in a seaside town in Yorkshire during the years between the two world wars.

A few fair days

Hamilton

Long Way from Verona

A long way from Verona

Following her father's death, a sixteen-year-old English girl spends an unsettling summer convinced that she has lived before as Emily Bronte.

The summer after the funeral

Jane Austen's love life- long the subject of speculation- is finally, delightfully dealt with in the title story of this collection. Many of the other stories, like 'The Sidmouth Letters,' bring together past and present- with sometimes hilarious, sometimes disturbing, often intensely moving results.With quiet elegance and devastating accuracy, Jane Gardam probes many and varied lives. We meet a trio of Kensington widows, mean-spirited and middle-aged, paying improbable tribute to a long exploited nanny; we await- with dread- a stranger to tea in an Engliish home; we witness the mercurial changes that take place in young love, and we watch as a bohemian, passionate past returns to tempt domestic bliss.

The Sidmouth letters

Short Stories & Anthologies

H.Hamilton

In 1904, at the age of six, Polly goes to live with her two holy aunts. The house is so close to the sea it seems to toss like a ship, and so isolated, Polly might be marooned on an island. There she lives for 81 years, while the century rages around her and Victorian order becomes nuclear dread.

Crusoe's daughter

London: Hamilton, 1985

Bilgewater

A winner of the Whitbread Award for Best Novel of the Year, a haunting novel traces the sometimes hilarious descent into madness and eventual restoration of a smart, imaginative English woman isolated in her well-to-do home who writes letters to a neighbor she barely knows.

The Queen of the Tambourine

St Martins Pr

With prose that is vibrant witty and off-the-wall, The Queen of the Tambourine traces the emotional breakdown--and eventual restoration--of Eliza Peabody, a smart and wildly imaginative woman who has become unbearably isolated in her prosperous home in present-day South London. The letters Eliza writes to her neighbor, a woman whom she hardly knows, reveal the story of her self-propelled descent into madness. Eliza must reach the very bottom of her inner downward spiral before she can once again find health and serenity. The story of a woman's confrontation with the ideas and realities of sanity, The Queen of Tambourine will delight readers who enjoy the works of Anita Brookner, Sybille Bedford, Muriel Spark, and Sylvia Plath.

Genre Fiction

Picador

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A Long Way from Verona

The Summer After the Funeral

A few fair days

A long way from Verona

The summer after the funeral

The Sidmouth letters

Crusoe's daughter

Bilgewater

The Queen of the Tambourine

The Queen of the Tambourine