- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate (4 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841152412
- ISBN-13: 978-1841152417
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 946,714 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Lucy English’s third novel is set in a Suffolk commune in the Seventies where, beneath the blissful summer surface, the young inhabitants are caught in a downward spiral ending in tragedy.
When Don, an aristocratic young Notting Hill poet, inherits a stately home in the depths of the Suffolk countryside from an elderly relative, he decides to move there taking with him an artist, Tessa and her best friend, Deedee. A menage a trois develops and as they form a commune and begin to grow their own vegetables, they live together in rural harmony. It is only when they decide to enlarge their group, bringing in strangers encountered at fairs and in pubs – the mesmerising and charismatic Jack, a single mother Helen and her troublesome six-year-old daughter, Beauty – that the balance is upset, tensions emerge and the friction builds to its horrific climax.
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When Don, an aristocratic young Notting Hill bohemian, inherits St. John's, a run-down medieval manor house in the depths of the Suffolk countryside, he decides to form a commune with Tessa, and artist, and her friend Deedee. They have an idealist's dream of self-suffiency, sharing and harmony that seems intially to succeed. It is only when they try to build on this fantasy by introducing others – the mesmerising Jack, single mother Helena and her disturbed small daughter Beauty – that the balance is upset. Tensions emerge and friction builds until tragedy shatters their ideals forever.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A very readable, absorbing tale,
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This review is from: Our Dancing Days (Paperback)
A well-written tale of 'alternative' life in the seventies. I got hooked early on and enjoyed the episodes, trials and dramas of the all the characters. Tessa is a likeable, believable main character. A shame Helen seemed to possess no redeeming qualities. Okay, so you kind of know what is going to happen by the mid-section of this novel but it is still a very good, entertaining read.
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