The Warning Bell

Banks, Lynne Reid

ISBN 10: 0241113091 / ISBN 13: 9780241113097

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London,UK, 1984

About this Item

First UK Edition, First Printing. A first edition, first printing (first impression) with 1984 to the copyright page and no additional printings meeting the first edition criteria for this publisher. Some slight bumping to the boards and creasing to the head of the spine of the jacket the text is clean tight and unmarked. SIGNED by Lynne Reid Banks to the front end page. Seller Inventory # 002259

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Warning Bell

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London,UK

Publication Date: 1984

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Maggie Robertson, reckless and ruthless in her desire to escape the stifling atmosphere of her puritanical home in Scotland, fights her way into the world of the theater

From Publishers Weekly:

Banks ( The L-Shaped Room eloquently depicts Maggie Robertson, a woman encumbered by guilt and ambivalence because she shunned her father's repressive, antiquated beliefs. While living with her family in Scotland after WW II, Maggie decides she cannot be the subservient spinster her father envisions. Mr. Robertson rages when he learns that Maggie has enrolled in drama school, and at his instigation the teacher who aided her is fired. Although Maggie has talent, discouraging periods of unemployment plus persistent remorse cause her to marry a man she doesn't love and accompany him to Nigeria. Just as she could not give herself completely to acting, Maggie withholds uninhibited devotion from Matt, her son, whose loyalty belongs to the Ibo tribeswoman who nurtured him. Finally, Maggie and Matt return to London, where she must decide whether to prod the dormant instincts connecting her with "primitive sources of feeling and being," or be forever enslaved by propriety, indecisiveness and fear. Banks describes Maggie's arduous maturation with compassion and lyricism; insights into the vagaries of the acting profession add to the book's veracity.
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