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"Although the story of the Barshinskeys, which became our story, too, stretched over many summers and winters, that golden time of 1902 was when our strange, involved relationship began, when our youthful longing for the exotic, for the fulfillment of dreams not even dreamed, took a solid and restless hold upon us." So recounts Sophie Wolloughby as she remembers that magical English summer afternoon in the season of King Edward VII's coronation and at the end of the Boer War; that dreamlike lull in time when the hedgerows were smothered in elderflowers and the meadow air was sweet with haymaking. With her brother, Edwin, her sister, Lillian, Sophie listened to the seductive strains of the wild Russian violin tune Mr. Barshinskey played and watched spellbound as the ragtag Barshinskey family-Ivan, sullen and dirty; Mrs. Barshinskey, pale and withdrawn; and Galina, sensual, wanton, beautiful-made their way across Tyler's meadow and into the Willoughby's world. The delighted Willoughby children could not know that this day and the Barshinskeys' arrival would change their lives forever-much as a breathless Europe could not anticipate that in a few short years, winds of revolution and war would whip across continents, sweeping away the old familiar way of life. It is at this enchanted moment that The Summer of the Barshinskeys begins. A beautifully told, compelling story that moves from the small village of Kent to teeming London, from war-torn and revolution rocked Moscow to St. Petersburg, this is the unforgettable saga of two families whose destinies are fated to entwine in endless combinations of friendship, passion, hatred and love.
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About the Author
Diane Pearson was born in London but spent a large part of her childhood with her grandparents in a village on the Surrey/Kent borders. She is the bestselling author of several novels, including Csardas, The Summer of the Barshinskeys and Voices of Summer. Formerly an editor, in 1994 she won the British Book Award for Editor of the Year, she is now President of the Romantic Novelists' Association. She lives in London and is the widow of Richard Leech, the actor.
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"The Russian section is reminiscent of Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, horrifying yet hauntingly beautiful" New York Tribune "An engrossing saga...she evokes rural England at the turn of the century with her sure and skilful touch" -- Barbara Taylor Bradford
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- PublisherCorgi Books
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 0552126411
- ISBN 13 9780552126410
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages496
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