On the Way to the Wedding

Jo Riddett

ISBN 10: 0241002168 / ISBN 13: 9780241002162

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London England, 1994

About this Item

Mo Coverdale is quietly minding his own business, living in rural simplicity on a farm rather too close to the family estate for comfort. A 21-year-old free spirit with a taste for the unconventional, he has removed himself from a promising naval career and simultaneously a family inheritance. As far as his conservative family is concerned, he has simple ceased to exist. In the post-war turbulence of 1929, nothing is as it ever was or ever will be again. The games of the gentry clash with old rural mores in this moving novel of sexual betrayal and youthful dissent. This book portrays a world perilously balanced on the brink of enormous social change through the microcosm of rancorous family feud.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: On the Way to the Wedding
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London England
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241002168
• ISBN 13: 9780241002162
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

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Synopsis

Grace is governess to an Anglo-German family. In 1929 her employer leaves her German husband in Berlin, uprooting the family to a Northamptonshire village. As Grace gets to understand village life, she also comes to experience her sexual awakening as a new war is cast over their rural existence.