Frost In May : Virago Modern Classics
By: Antonia White, Tessa Hadley (Introduction by)
Paperback | 8 May 2018 | Edition Number 1
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Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes.
Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends.
With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley. Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include:
- Frost in May by Antonia White
- The Collected Stories of Grace Paley
- Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault
- The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
- The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann
- Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith
- The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Heartburn by Nora Ephron
- The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy
- Memento Mori by Muriel Spark
- A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor
About the Author
Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul's School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May (1922), The Lost Traveller (1950), The Sugar House (1952) and Beyond the Glass (1954).
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ISBN: 9780349010281
ISBN-10: 0349010285
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Published: 8th May 2018
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 224
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Little Brown
Country of Publication: GB
Edition Number: 1
Dimensions (cm): 1.5 x 12.6 x 19.6
Weight (kg): 0.19
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