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From an author better known as the award-winning and highly acclaimed JOANNA TROLLOPE. 'Lively, astute.' - NEW YORK TIMES 'A joy to read. Excellent.' - Our Reading Panel Lila Cunningham was almost twenty-one when she learned with a shock that her artist father faced financial disaster. With the loss of their home imminent, they had no option but to accept an offer of a house in Malta. But war was looming, and Malta became the focus of Hitler's attention just as Lila became the focus of attention for three very different young men. As bombing devastated the island and Lila, along with the other inhabitants, learned to live with privation and fear, she also came to realize the value of true love in all its forms, and the difference between hope and illusion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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- PublisherCharnwood
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 070898987X
- ISBN 13 9780708989876
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages448
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