These Lovers Fled Away Author:Howard Spring Never has Howard Spring created a more compelling narrative or a more brilliant and varied gallery of characters than in this story of Chad Boothroyd and the mysterious and beautiful Rose Garland. "These Lovers Fled Away" begins with young Chad in the paradise of a small Cornwall village, playing next door to the great estates of the Orlops, dom... more »inated by Lucy Orlop, a portrait painter, an unconvinced spinster, and Rose's guardian. As Chad grows up, he goes to live with his Uncle Arthur, a trencherman with a taste for oratory and an old bachelor's fondness for Miss Orlop. In this setting, Chad and three friend embark on their various tangled and intertwining adventures--one becomes a nuclear physicist, one rises to a position of power in the Labour party, the third, a handsome, reckless poet, loses his legs in the First World War. In all their lives Rose plays an important part. The mistress of one, briefly the wife of another, she later marries Chad, who had loved her from the time he first saw her as a child in Cornwall. The engrossing story is told by CHad, who himself becomes a successful playwright. His observations on life are enriched by the men and women of the theater, of science and of government who people the book. "These Lovers Fled Away is a magnificent story of three generations of adventurous, colorful people--alive and intensely readable on every page. It will hold the reader with its fascination and charm. Once again, in the tradition of his powerful best-seller, "The Houses in Between," Howard Spring has given us a story with the richness, vitality and sweep that have made him an outstanding novelist.« less