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England in transition, from a colonial power to a creative powerhouse, seen through the eyes two young women who begin their fight for independent lives in the Swinging London of the Sixties. Traditionally-minded Catherine and rebellious Monty reject their privileged background and set out to fulfil their talents in two very different worlds – high finance and rock music. At the height of their success their father’s hidden past is revealed and they are forced to question their beliefs. Celia Brayfield’s first novel, Pearls defined a generation with its panoramic vision of women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, sweeping from the rainforests of Malaysia on the eve of World War II to the glossy materialism of Eighties London. “Ms Brayfield knows what she is doing, and what she does, she does well....her women sound and act like real women.” Anthony Burgess, The Independent “Sisterhood is powerful in this passionate page-turner.” Time Magazine “A great adventure of our time which...confronts all human passions, ambitions and dreams.” Le Meridional
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About the Author:
Celia Brayfield is a novelist and cultural commentator. She is the author of nine novels. Wild Weekend explores the tensions in a Suffolk village in homage to Oliver Goldmsith's She Stoops to Conquer. To explore suburban living, she created the community of Westwick and explored mid-life manners in Mr Fabulous And Friends, and the environmental implications of urbanisation in Getting Home. She has often juxtaposed historical and contemporary settings, notably eighteenth century Spain in Sunset, pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in White Ice and Malaysia in the time of World War II in Pearls. Four of her novels have been optioned by major US, UK or French producers.
Her non-fiction titles include two standard works on the art of writing: Arts Reviews (Kamera Books, 2008) and Bestseller (Fourth Estate, 1996.) Her most recent is Deep France (Pan, 2004) a journal of a year she spent writing in south-west France.
She has served on the management committee of The Society of Authors and judged national literary awards including the Betty Trask Award and the Macmillan Silver PEN Prize. A former media columnist, she contributes to The Times, BBC Radio 4 and other national and international media.
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Her non-fiction titles include two standard works on the art of writing: Arts Reviews (Kamera Books, 2008) and Bestseller (Fourth Estate, 1996.) Her most recent is Deep France (Pan, 2004) a journal of a year she spent writing in south-west France.
She has served on the management committee of The Society of Authors and judged national literary awards including the Betty Trask Award and the Macmillan Silver PEN Prize. A former media columnist, she contributes to The Times, BBC Radio 4 and other national and international media.
Lord James Bourton's suicide leaves his family up to their ears in debt and surrounded by whispers of a scandal that began years before with a woman he betrayed in the jungles of Malaya. Numbed by his death, Cathy Bourton tries to recoup her loss by marrying "well," but the womanizing aristocrat she chooses makes her life a misery until their divorce leaves her free to reap a fortune in London's financial district. Her sister Monty finds fame singing with a gritty rock group, but when success sours with those brawling skirtchasers, she sinks quickly into drugs and degradation before rising from the ashes to develop a hot new act. A sprawling, poorly controlled plot makes a good portion of this lengthy saga hard going. So much uninspired, frenetic activity is packed into these pages that Brayfield's memorable descriptions of the English colony in Malaya during the 1940s are buried and the excitement of the moment when past and present merge is diminished. 100,000 printing; $175,000 ad/promo.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1492781193
- ISBN 13 9781492781196
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages548
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