Letting in the light / Charlotte Betts.
By: Betts, Charlotte [author].
Series: Betts, Charlotte. Spindrift trilogy: 3.Publisher: Leicester : Ulverscroft, Charnwood, 2022Edition: Large print edition.Description: 420 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781444849349.Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Artists colonies -- Fiction | Artists -- Fiction | Cornwall (England : County) -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- FictionGenre/Form: Large type books.Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Cornwall, 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband, Benedict, deserted her when their children were babies. Now the children are almost adult, Edith and Pascal, her faithful lover of two decades, are planning to leave their beloved Spindrift artists' community and finally be together. But an explosive encounter between Benedict and Pascal forces old secrets into the light. Then an assassin's bullet fired in faraway Sarajevo sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything. Under the shadow of war, the community struggles to eke out a living. The younger generation enlist or volunteer to support the war effort, facing dangers that seemed unimaginable in the golden summer of 1914. When it's all over, will the Spindrift community survive an unexpected threat?| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Eccleston Library Large Print | Available | 38055013157359 |
Cornwall, 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband, Benedict, deserted her when their children were babies. Now the children are almost adult, Edith and Pascal, her faithful lover of two decades, are planning to leave their beloved Spindrift artists' community and finally be together. But an explosive encounter between Benedict and Pascal forces old secrets into the light. Then an assassin's bullet fired in faraway Sarajevo sets in motion a chain of events that changes everything. Under the shadow of war, the community struggles to eke out a living. The younger generation enlist or volunteer to support the war effort, facing dangers that seemed unimaginable in the golden summer of 1914. When it's all over, will the Spindrift community survive an unexpected threat?
Adult.