by Giles Waterfield (Author)
In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of ease, and a ravishing garden. But as the political conflict gathers, so the atmosphere of their new home becomes increasingly unquiet and a tragic fate befalls them. THE LONG AFTERNOON enchants and involves the reader, just as the Williamsons' garden seduces its visitors.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: New e.
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 0747268487
ISBN 13: 9780747268482
Book Overview: A haunting evocation of a paradise created in exile and destroyed by war
`Waterfield has captured to perfection the languid, leisured expat lifestyle... culminating in a terrible, haunting, unexpected ending'
Daily Mail