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North Face: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

North Face: A Virago Modern Classic (Virago Modern Classics)

by Mary Renault (Author), Mary Renault (Author)

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    Paperback 2014

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Synopsis

On holiday in the North Devon countryside, Neil Langton looks back on the wreckage of his past. He has come to believe that all happiness is behind him; the wounds from his former marriage - in which his wife cheated on him and his young daughter died - are still raw. While rock-climbing, he meets Ellen, a young woman whom he saves from a mountainside accident. Ellen, too, is looking to escape her painful past, struggling to deal with her feelings for the man she loved - a pilot who died in service. Set in postwar Britain, and filled with a memorable cast of characters, North Face is a love story rich in atmosphere and tension.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 321
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 02 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 184408955X
ISBN 13: 9781844089550
Book Overview: A postwar love story from the author of The Charioteer.

Media Reviews
a rich, serious, nourishing novel...It demands to be read slowly, with attention. Every character is real, solid, and multi-layered. * Independent on Sunday *
Author Bio
Mary Renault (1905-1983) was born in London and educated at St Hughs, Oxford. She trained as a nurse at Oxford's Radcliffe Infirmary, where she met her lifelong partner, Julie Mullard. Her first novel, Purposes of Love, was published in 1937. In 1948, after North Face won a MGM prize worth $150,000, she and Mullard emigrated to South Africa. There, Renault was able to write forthrightly about homosexual relationships for the first time - in her masterpiece, The Charioteer (1953), and then in her first historical novel, The Last of the Wine (1956). Renault's vivid novels set in the ancient world brought her worldwide fame. In 2010 Fire From Heaven was shortlisted for the Lost Booker of 1970.