A01=Stevie Smith
Author_Stevie Smith
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classic historical fiction
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germany
historical fiction
historical war fiction
literary historical fiction
me again
novel on yellow paper
over the frontier
pompey casmilus
second world war
stevie smith
the holiday
virago
virago modern classics
vmc
war books
war love stories
wartime fiction
wartime novels
wartime romance
women authors
world war two
Product details
- ISBN 9780860681304
- Weight: 184g
- Dimensions: 199 x 132mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 1980
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
Stevie Smith was born in Hull and educated in London. She was both a poet and a novelist. She died in 1971.
