Over The Frontier
By (Author) Stevie Smith
Little, Brown Book Group
Virago Press Ltd
1st January 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.91
Paperback
272
Width 199mm, Height 132mm, Spine 16mm
184g
It is 1936. Pompey Casmilus lives in London with her beloved Aunt, bothered by the menace of German militarism, bothered too by the humbug wich confronts it, bothered most of all by her hopeless love affair with Freddy, Its ending plunges Pompey into melancholy, six months rest and recuperation are prescribed and 'savage, sick and cross' Pompey goes to Schloss Tilssen on the northern German border, only to fall in with a strange band of conspirators: the plum coloured Mrs Pouncer, the absent minded Colonel Peck and the dashing Major Tom Satterthwaite, whom Pompey comes to love.
Stevie Smith was born in Hull and educated in London. She was both a poet and a novelist. She died in 1971.