A Half Forgotten Song
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
A Half Forgotten Song
By (Author) Katherine Webb
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
8th January 2013
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
823.92
Physical Properties
Paperback
496
Width 128mm, Height 228mm, Spine 32mm
400g
Description
1937. In a village on the Dorset coast, fourteen-year-old Mitzy Hatcher has endured a wild and lonely upbringing - until the arrival of renowned artist Charles Aubrey, his exotic mistress and their daughters, changes everything. Over the next three summers, Mitzy sees a future she had never thought possible, and a powerful love is kindled in her. A love that grows from innocence to obsession; from childish infatuation to something far more complex.
Years later, a young man in an art gallery looks at a hastily-drawn portrait and wonders at the intensity of it. The questions he asks lead him to a Dorset village and to the truth about those fevered summers in the 1930s...Reviews
A dreamy summer epic. * ESSENTIALS *
Webb explores obsession and its dark consequences, with a mood of foreboding * THE HERALD *
Author Bio
Katherine Webb was born in 1977 and grew up in rural Hampshire before reading History at Durham University. She has since spent time living in London and Venice, and now lives in Wiltshire.
