Archive for October 27, 2010
GOD ON THE ROCKS by Jane Gardam
And so begins the delightful 1978 novel by Jane Gardam, with an exquisitely described trip on a local train that “went slowly, see-sawing from side to side in the dusty coach with blinds with buttoned ends and a stiff leather strap arched like a tongue on the carriage door,” a pitch-perfect evocation of Britain between the Wars. What begins for Margaret Marsh is nothing less than the gradual opening of her eyes to the complexity of the adult world.
October 27, 2010
Tags: 1930s, Europa, Historical, Jane Gardam, Literary Posted in: Award Winning Author, Coming-of-Age, Time Period Fiction, United Kingdom 
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