Running Wild - Softcover

Clayton, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752825178 ISBN 13: 9780752825175

Publisher: Orion Pub Co, 2002

Synopsis

Elfrida Swann, a struggling portrait painter known to everyone as Freddie, is about to marry Alex Moncrieff, a successful barrister. Preparations for the great day, arranged with magnificent extravagance by her smart stepmother, are on schedule. The bridesmaids’ bouquets are made up, the cake is decorated, the altar is adorned. Then, two days before the wedding, Freddie – a byword among her friends for common sense and dependability – decides that she cannot go through with it. Unable to face the fury and anguish of Alex, her parents and, it seems, almost everyone she has ever known, Freddie runs away to Drop Cottage in Dorset, lent to her by a friend. At first sight, its state of dilapidation is so extreme that Freddie feels she cannot possibly stay. But events conspire to detain her and rapidly she falls under the spell of its idiosyncratic charms. The attentions of the son of the ‘big house’, the friendship of the eccentric and beguiling Prim, a family of neglected children, a naked hermit, a clergyman with ‘doubts’ and the ravishing beauty of the countryside are just some of the elements that combine to reveal to Freddie the truth of her own mind and heart.

About this title

About the Author:

Victoria Clayton published two children’s books when in her early twenties. She then read English at Cambridge as a mature student, married and had two children before returning to writing fiction. Her previous novels, Running Wild, Dance With Me, Out of Love and Past Mischief, shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year Award 1999, are all available in Orion Paperback.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Pub Co
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0752825178
• ISBN 13: 9780752825175
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400