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The House with Blue Shutters Main Edition
Author(s): Lisa Hilton (Author)
- Publisher: Corvus
- Publication Date: 1 July 2010
- Edition: Main
- Language: English
- Print length: 440 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848874669
- ISBN-13: 9781848874664
Book Description
CASTROUX, FRANCE, 1939. In a bare farmhouse above the village, Oriane lives in desperate poverty. When the Germans invade, her simple world crumbles. Passions erupt, moral boundaries break down, and rebellion is soon in the air. CASTROUX, FRANCE, 2000. In an idyllic gîte overlooking the river, Claudia sunbathes on the terrace. She’s pregnant, trapped, and terrified of the future. She confides only in an elderly neighbour, Oriane, and discovers that she too once carried a shameful secret. THE HOUSE WITH BLUE SHUTTERS. Witness to the horrors of war and the heartache that followed. A place where history echoes off every wall…
Editorial Reviews
Review
Hilton’s style is positivly edible ― Sunday Telegraph
Refreshing both in the lightness of touch and the vividness of description ―
Sunday ExpressScintillating… vivid ―
ObserverAbout the Author
After reading English at Oxford, Lisa Hilton lived for many years in France and Italy, where she studied history of art and worked as a writer and translator. She presently lives between central London and the South of France.
