Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
512
Language
English
Published
Feb 1, 1969
Publisher
Fontana
ISBN-10
0006109675
ISBN-13
9780006109679
Description
In 1916 the impressionable fifteen-year-old George Ledra is sent from Manchester to Cornwall because of his ill-health. Here he meets Hector Chown, a professor of Greek. Hector is living in a derelict house with his actress niece, Sylvia Bascombe and her young daughter, Janet. The story of how their lives become entwined spans the years of uncertainty between the two World Wars and, ever present in the tale, the house becomes a symbol of the fragility of their world.
Genres
Science Fiction