School for Love

penguin Books, London, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Second impression. Size: 12mo Small. 192 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's name ink-stamped. Edges slightly foxed. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Jerusalem in 1945 is a city in flux: refugees from the war in Europe fill its streets and cafés, the British colonial mandate is coming to an end, and tensions are on the rise between the Arab and Jewish populations. Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies-joy, charity, and love-even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Israel; 1950s; ISBN: 0140059326. ISBN/EAN: 9780140059328. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8893. . 9780140059328