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Green Dolphin Country
Elizabeth Goudge. Introduced by Eileen Goudge
First published in 1935, 1944, Green Dolphin Country is an epic tale of love, courage and selfless devotion, set in the Channel Islands and New Zealand in the nineteenth century, written with Elizabeth Goudge’s inimitable feeling for the intricacies of human emotions.
“Breathtaking … A long vista of undulating story, with here and there peaks of volcanic excitement.” Daily Telegraph
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Patricia Grace. Introduced by Kirsty Gunn
Potiki is a mesmerizing novel about a coastal Maori community threatened with resettlement. The danger to their existence in all that it means to them is mortal, and the outcome dramatic.
Potiki won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction.
Agnes Grey
Anne Brontë . Introduced by Isabel Quigly
First published in 1847, and thought to be based on Anne Brontë’s own experiences, Agnes Grey is a milestone in English literature, offering a wry, penetrating observation of middle-class Victorian Britain.
“The most perfect prose narrative in English letters.” George Moore
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead. Introduced by Angela Carter
The Man Who Loved Children is an astonishing account of the crumbling of an American bourgeois family. Intimate, accurate and savagely funny, it is also unforgettably moving.
“The whole book is different from any book you have read before. What other book represents – tries to represent, even – a family in such conclusive detail?” Randall Jarell
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