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The Spoilt City: The Balkan Trilogy 2

★★★★★
★★★★★

English

By (author): Olivia Manning

'Her gallery of personages is huge, her scene painting superb, her pathos controlled, her humour quiet and civilised' - Anthony Burgess

'Glittering characterisation, sharp and eloquent writing' - Sunday Telegraph

'Wonderfully entertaining' - Observer

Bucharest, 1940. The city is on the brink of invasion and Guy and Harriet Pringle find their position growing ever more dangerous. Harriet longs for safety, while Guy's idealism frustrates his new wife. But when the Germans march in, Guy believes they must separate in a desperate bid to find safety, so Harriet leaves for Athens. The Spoilt City is a dramatic and colourful portrait of a city in turmoil, and of a young couple struggling to make their marriage work in the face of adversity.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 255g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 11 Feb 2021
  • Publisher: Cornerstone
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781786091550

About Olivia Manning

Olivia Manning OBE was born in Portsmouth Hampshire spent much of her youth in Ireland and as she puts it had 'the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere'. The daughter of a naval officer she produced her first novel The Wind Changes in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband R.D. Smith a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.

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