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ROGUE HERRIES
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| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0711228892 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780711228894 |
| Publisher: |
FRANCES LINCOLN PUBLISHERS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
9 October, 2008 |
| Pages: |
768 |
| Description: |
The first volume of The Herries Chronicles, recounting the dramatic fortunes of one family from the eighteenth to early twentieth century, in a magnificent Lake District setting. |
| Synopsis: |
Described on its first publication by John Buchan as the finest English novel since Jude the Obscure, Rogue Herries tells the story of the larger than life Francis Herries who uproots his family from Yorkshire and brings them to live in Borrowdale where their life is as dramatic as the landscape surrounding them. Proud, violent and impetuous he despises his first wife, sells his mistress at a county fair and forms a great love for the teenage gypsy Mirabell Starr. Alongside this turbulent story, runs that of his son David, with enemies of his own, and that of his gentle daughter Deborah with placid dreams that will not be realised in her father's house. 'As a feat both of knowledge and imagination the book is huge' Observer 'A superb work of fiction. There is not one tired listless page' J.B. Priestly The Graphic |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |