A01=Antonia White
antonia white
as once in may
Author_Antonia White
beyond the glass
british writer
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catholic
christianity
convent
eirene botting
elizabeth bowen
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frost in may
mink and curdy
nothing to forgive
now to my mother
nuns
religious writing
strangers
the hound and the falcon
the lost traveller
the sugar house
three in a room
virago modern classic
Product details
- ISBN 9781844083787
- Weight: 164g
- Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 03 Aug 2006
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.
Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends.
Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul's School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May (1922), The Lost Traveller (1950), The Sugar House (1952) and Beyond the Glass (1954).
