The Brass Dolphin - Softcover

Harvey, Caroline; Trollope, Joanna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425176339 ISBN 13: 9780425176337

Publisher: Berkley, 2000

Synopsis

On the island of Malta during World War II, a young British woman, living with her father in a beautiful but decaying mansion, learns important lessons about war, fear, and love.

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From the Inside Flap:

Lila Cunningham, motherless since babyhood, was almost twenty-one when her familiar life in a small town on the Suffolk coast came abruptly to an end. It was 1938, and she learned with a shock that her endearing but feckless artist father faced financial disaster. With the loss of their home imminent, they had no option but to exxept an offer of a house in Malta, and on that hot and exotic island, in the magnificent but crumbling Villa Zonda, Lila at last glimpsed the kind of life of which she had always dreamed.

But war was looming, and Malta became the focus of Hitler's attention while Lila became the focus of attention of three very different young men. As bombing devastated the island Lila, along with the other inhabitants, learned to live with privation and fear, and also to discover which dreams are really worth pursuing.

In this enchanting new novel Caroline Harvey captures all the warmth and romance of Malta as well as its dramatic sufferings during the Second World War.

From the Paperback edition.

About the Author:

A descendant of Anthony Trollope and a #1 bestselling author in England, Joanna Trollope is most recently the author of Other People's Children (Viking) and The Best of Friends (Berkley). Her novels The Choir and The Rector's Wife were both adapted for Masterpiece Theatre. She lives in Gloucestershire, England. This is the first Caroline Harvey novel that Viking has published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0425176339
• ISBN 13: 9780425176337
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352