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Children of Light (Paperback)

by Lucy English (Author)
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  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd (4 Mar 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1857029763
  • ISBN-13: 978-1857029765
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,590,981 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The Times
"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." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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As with her successful debut SELFISH PEOPLE, Bristol based Lucy English's second novel, set in Provence and Bath, features a bohemian heroine, and describes an ongoing rebellion within a family of each generation against the last. 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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5.0 out of 5 stars A story that stays in your mind, 16 Mar 2001
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars The book I wish I'd written, 31 Dec 2003
By R. Kershaw "Bee" (UK) - See all my reviews
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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.
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5.0 out of 5 stars lyrical language with compassion for characters, 12 Aug 2002
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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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