{"product_id":"the-gulls-fly-inland","title":"Gulls Fly Inland","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is October 1939. Blanche Lancret is a French exile in England,\nlooking after her American friend Annabelle’s baby. She is\nwaiting for news of Annabelle’s brother Vernon, who is serving with an ambulance unit in newly-invaded France, and of her surrogate mother Tante\nJulie, a rich démimondaine nursing her dying husband Otto on\nthe French Riviera.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo maintain her sang-froid Blanche\nwrites her journal, recalling\nhow she met Vernon as a schoolgirl, her girlhood with Tante Julie in Paris and with her father in Italy, and\nher inexplicable betrayal by Tante Julie’s servants, who ensure that\nBlanche and Vernon fail\nto meet at a crucial point in their\ncourtship.\nVernon then\nmarries the\nimpervious\nBostonian Leonora and Blanche believes him to be lost to her\nforever.\nUntil\nVernon realises that Blanche is about to sail back to Europe and appears in her\nstateroom asking her to stay … As the years wind forward Blanche and\nVernon remain\nseparated by other\npeople’s\nmachinations, and only the war might set them free. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSylvia Thompson’s glorious, passionate\nnovel of the 1930s and the early years of the Second World War is a sumptuous\nromance set in the imperturbable correctness of interwar Paris, and in fast-moving 1930s London\nand Boston. Thompson’s\nstorytelling\nis devastating\nin\nits emotional truth. This\nis a\nwonderful\nforgotten novel from 1941, now reissued with an introduction by Faye Hammill,\nProfessor of English at the University of Glasgow.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Handheld Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49729843790168,"sku":"9781912766864","price":18.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781912766864__6773bbf4750db.jpg?v=1741161448","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/the-gulls-fly-inland","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}