A01=Lisa St Aubin de Teran
Author_Lisa St Aubin de Teran
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eighteenth century family drama
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family history
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- ISBN 9781526655240
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 110 x 158mm
- Publication Date: 26 May 2022
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award 1982
‘Exceptional’ Observer
Lydia Sinclair was just seventeen when she arrived on her husband’s estate in the Andes, and from the first day she felt that she belonged there.
Keepers of the House tells the story of a young English woman newly married to a sugar planter. As her husband, the last of the Beltran family line, retreats into himself, Lydia finds solace in the stories of Benito, the family’s oldest retainer. Unearthing the Beltran family’s tragic history, she weaves together a rich gothic tapestry in which the fantastic legends of the past are intertwined with the present.
Lisa St Aubin de Terán was born in London in 1953. She left England at the age of sixteen and, with her exiled Venezuelan husband, travelled extensively through Europe for two years before returning to his family home in the Andes. For seven years, she ran her husband’s sugar and avocado estate, drawing on these experiences in her first novel, Keepers of the House which won the Somerset Maugham Award.
