Synopsis
David and Nadine loved each other. Why should the be forced to make an impossible choice? The Bird in the Tree Few women her age were as beautiful or as cherished by their families as Lucilla Eliot. In her love for the Eliot clan, she had worked to make Damerosehay, her home on the Hampshire coast, a captivatingly beautiful refuge, capable of withstanding any threat to family happiness. Now, her lifetime’s labor was about to be destroyed by her favorite grandson David. In love with Nadin, the estranged wife of another man, he faced an impossible choice: surrender his devotion to the woman he loved and preserve his family’s integrity or marry her and destroy everything that Lucilla had worked so hard to preserve. The love of children, the wisdom of an old woman, the traditions of the family home, and the lonely splendor of the marshes and the sea all play their part in this beautiful tale, sensitively told. This is the first of Elizabeth Goudge’s three novels about the Eliot family – the others are entitled Pilgrim’s Inn and The Heart of the Family.
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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900 in Wells, Somerset, where her father was Principal of Wells Theological College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career, her parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC, set in Guernsey, was a great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944) projected her to fame, netting a Literary Guild Award and a special prize of GBP30,000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed. In her later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on April 1st, 1984.
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