by JoannaTrollope (Author)
Set partly in London and partly in America, GIRL FROM THE SOUTH follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single - the children, in fact, of sixties swingers. They have, it seems, infinite opportunity, but are bedevilled by indecision, by the breadth of choice, by the inflexibility of tradition, by the consequences of their parents' careless marital history - and by being still dazzled by the nineteenth-century vision of the sublimity of romantic love. The men can't commit, the girls can't reconcile independence and maternity, the rules seem to be vanishing. And time, of course, is passing...
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 04 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0747557993
ISBN 13: 9780747557999
Book Overview: * The first novel, since A SPANISH LOVER, in which Joanna Trollope has ventured abroad: this time it's to South Carolina * MARRYING THE MISTRESS has sold over 100,000 copies in hardback * Radical and ravishing new jacket treatment