The Fox's Walk
by Davis-Goff, Annabel
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/none
- ISBN 10
- 015101020X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010202
- Seller
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Slate Hill, New York, United States
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Synopsis
During the First World War, ten-year-old Alice Moore is left in the care of her autocratic grandmother at Ballydavid, a lovely country house in County Waterford. Living in a rigid, old-fashioned household where propriety is all, Alice is forced to piece together her world-a world on the brink of revolution-from overheard conversations, servants' gossip, and her own keen observations. She soon realizes that her family's privilege comes at a great cost to others-among them a psychic countess down on her luck, a Roman Catholic boy whom Alice hero-worships, and an admired governess, as well as most of her neighbors. After the Easter Rising, when blood is spilled close to home and loyalties are divided, tensions within Ireland and Ballydavid mount. Alice is forced to choose between her heritage of privilege and her growing moral and political conscience.
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- Bookseller
- Cup and Chaucer Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3893
- Title
- The Fox's Walk
- Author
- Davis-Goff, Annabel
- Format/Binding
- (alk. paper) viii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- none
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advanced Reading Copy, first prepublication printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 015101020X
- ISBN 13
- 9780151010202
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- Bildungsromans; Country homes; Domestic fiction; Fiction; Girls; Grandmothers; Historical; Literary; War & Military
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, European; Fiction, Historical;
- Size
- Octavo
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