More Lives Than One

Healy, Captain Tim

ISBN 10: 0340680423 / ISBN 13: 9780340680421

Published by Appleton Century, 1944

About this Item

The book is square and fairly tight with four bumped tips. The dust jacket is worn, tattered and damp stained.

Seller Inventory # 68490

Bibliographic Details

• Title: More Lives Than One
• Publisher: Appleton Century
• Publication Date: 1944
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340680423
• ISBN 13: 9780340680421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

A generous hearted novel of modern family life. Anna and Kit are both schoolteachers, longing for a baby of their own but there is no sign so far. The marriage is perhaps more companionable than high-voltage emotionally. But a disastrous school trip to Venice triggers a sequence of events that are to have serious consequences on all aspects of their lives. Kit Milcourt - impatient, quirky, idealistic and brilliant - has been a climber, diver in exotic waters and affluent young city banker. Now, because of his beloved Anna, he is a teacher. Glumly mediocre Sandmarsh High School, reeling under assaults from Inspectors and its own unpromising pupils, is hard put to contain his maverick ideas. Year Seven, on the other hand, love them. Only the soothing presence of Anna keeps the peace. But Anna can't guard her erratic husband on the school trip: instead a far darker, more malevolent staffroom presence crosses Europe and discovers what Kit has secretly planned for the children amid the dim alleys of winter Venice. But children are unpredictable too, and things move rapidly beyond both teachers' control. Between farce and tragedy the resulting events swiftly change Kit's and Anna's live in unthinkable ways, strain a great love to the limit and open a dark chasm into the past.

About the Author

Libby Purves is a writer and also a broadcaster who has presented the talk programme Midweek on Radio 4 since 1984 and formerly presented Today. She is a main columnist on the Times and in 1999 was named the Granada "What the Papers Say" Columnist of the Year, and awarded a O.B.E for services to journalism. She lives in Suffolk with her husband the broadcaster and writer Paul Heiney.