- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate; New edition edition (3 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841151165
- ISBN-13: 978-1841151168
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,217,246 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Children of Light is a loose, dreamy novel, drifting through two generations of family relationships. A book with which to while away a balmy afternoon on a Provencal balcony. Relax and read it."
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In a small village in Provence, a woman looks back over her life from the strained relationship she had with her own mother, to the current difficulties with her own son.
Mireille is the daughter of architect Hugo Devereux and Vivienne, his beautiful immaculate Grace Kelly lookalike wife – a slave to convention where her daughter is bohemian, elegant where Mireille is messy. When Hugo embarks on a project in the South of France in the Sixties the family moves to Provence for a while and Mireille discovers La Ferrou at the end of a path through the woods, in a clearing – a massive split brooding rock beneath which is a magical pool, a natural basin in the rock.
Back in England, rebelling against Vivienne, Mireille becomes a hippy teenager and runs away, pregnant, with Gregor, her gypsy lover, to live in a hut by La Ferrou. But when, after five years, Gregor continues on to India to find his Guru and becomes a Child of Light, Mireille, penniless with their son Stephen to support, returns to England to introduce her wild little child to his conservative grandmother. However, Stephen finds an affinity with Vivienne that Mireille never had and rebels against his mother and her lovers, and her unconventional life on a houseboat in Bath.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A beautifully told story which makes the places and people seem real. A book you don't want to end.
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Quite simply this is my favourite book and one I return to whenever I need my spirits lifting. If I could write a novel I would want it to be like this one. This is the story of Mireille, who returns to the South of France village she first visited as achild and later lived in with her bohemian lover Gregor and their child. Full of light and colour the story moves effortlessly between the past and present leaving traces of sunlit days in a stone hut in the South of France and a sense of joy. This book deserves to be more widely known.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I can not understand why Children of Light is not better known. It's a wonderful read and is also an amazingly inclusive, understanding look at how English society and the English themselves have changed - what has been lost and found and lost again over the last 50 years. The fractured family's lives and loves stretch to cover the global revolution in manners and mores and show how, from generation to generation, we stretch to accomodate these changes and still keep something for ourselves and our children. It's so beautifully written, too, that it's one of those books I both want everyone to read and dread to lend...
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