The Long Afternoon

by Giles Waterfield (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2000

  $4.77

  Henry and Helen Williamson set up a new life on the French Riviera but the impact of war and the stifling conventions of class on his parents are seen through the eyes of their elder son Charles, who reveals the drama and passions of their lives.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.38

  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.