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China Court: The Hours of a Country House
China Court The Hours of a Country House Author:Rumer Godden Rumer Godden, beloved author of such classic works as Black Narcissus and The Greengage Summer, is at her storytelling best in this delightfully supenseful romantic novel set in the wild Cornish countryside. — China Court is the tale of the hours and days of an English country house and the five generations of the Quin family who have inhabited i... more »t. It is a story of today in which the past is always present and the events of the moment are enriched by the memories of yesterday. Tracey Quin, daughter of a screen-star mother, raised on film lots around the world, has just returned to her adored family home, China Court. But her grandmother's recent death has set off a chain of events that threatens Tracey's future and the very existence of China Court. As Tracey struggles to save the old house, we meet the ancestors who have created it: the profligate, faithless Jared; Eliza, the embittered spinster; and Ripsie, an outcast orphan who rose to become the family's powerful matriarch.
Merging past with present is a fascinating narrative of love, ambition, and endurance, Rumer Godden has painted a memorable portrait of a century or so in the life of an English family.« less