Beneath the Visiting Moon (Paperback or Softback)

Cavan, Romilly

ISBN 10: 191305425X / ISBN 13: 9781913054250

Published by Dean Street Press 8/5/2019, 2019

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Beneath the Visiting Moon.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beneath the Visiting Moon (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Dean Street Press 8/5/2019
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191305425X
• ISBN 13: 9781913054250
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 0.71 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Tom came running up, pulling at his socks, so that there seemed something hiccuping, drunken, in his progress.

“We have been cleaning up,” he said cheerfully.

Mrs. Oxford winced. These poor children in their menial roles—And here came Sarah, with a smut on her cheek.

Left in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings—Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom—are shaken when their mother, loving but dizzy, takes a liking to Julian, a widowed neighbour with two children of his own. Sarah becomes infatuated with a thirty-something diplomat. Philly endures being painted by a dull local artist. Julian’s daughter Bronwen, a child prodigy who has already published a book, deals with the pressures of a literary life. And, in the end, a valiant attempt is made to revive the decaying, long-neglected ballroom of the family home for Sarah’s 18th birthday party. All against a backdrop of the ominous approach of World War II.

Evoking Diana Tutton’s Guard Your Daughters and Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, Beneath the Visiting Moon is both a glittering, funny tale of romance and family life and a brilliant, haunting story of youthful hopes and heartbreaks in a world on the brink of devastating change.

‘First-rate comedy. What a delightful little world it is that Miss Cavan has created and how truly representative of the time’ New York Times

About the Author

Romilly Cavan, the pen name of Isabel Wilson, was born on 13 July, 1914. She was the daughter of writer Desemea Wilson, who wrote under the name Diana Patrick. She met her husband, journalist and author Eric Hiscock in 1934, at the launch of her debut novel, Heron, when she was only 21. Romilly went on to write six novels in all. The last, Beneath the Visiting Moon, was an Evening Standard book of the month in 1940, the same year she married Eric. During World War Two, and on the encouragement of Noël Coward, she turned to the theatre. She eventually wrote twelve produced plays, including the Coward-titled I'll See You Again. Romilly Cavan died of cancer on 5 August, 1975.