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The Great Fortune: bk. 1 (The Balkan trilogy)

The Great Fortune: bk. 1 (The Balkan trilogy)

by OliviaManning (Author)

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

Bucharest, Autumn 1939: newlyweds Guy and Harriet Pringle arrive in a city alive with contrasts and rumour, on edge with wavering loyalties and the tension of war. Guy, teaching at the university, throws himself into Bucharest life, embracing all around him. Harriet, struggling to adjust to married life and to her husband's friendship with the over-attentive Sophie, finds life in a city cut off from the outside world less straightforward than she first anticipated.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 287
 Edition: New
 Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Published: 02 Nov 2000
ISBN 10: 0099415720
ISBN 13: 9780099415725

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The most considerable of our women novelists.
--Anthony Burgess
The most considerable of our women novelists.
Anthony Burgess
Author Bio
Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she put 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 Lecturer in Bucharest. Her experience 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.