A period novel observed through a refreshingly gimlet eye, Coral Glynn explores how quickly need and desire can blossom into love, and just as quickly transform into something less categorical. Borrowing from themes and characters prevalent in the work of mid-twentieth-century British women writers, Peter Cameron examines how we live and how we love - with his customary empathy and wit. At first blush, Peter Cameron's Coral Glynn is a curio--an atmospheric period piece. In its simplicity, it seems a throwback to midth-century domestic novels, but with echoes of Jane Eyre--a sort of Gothic lite. However, its concerns with repressed homosexuality, lies of omission and whether it's preferable to settle for ‘a quiet, decent life' or hold out for greater fulfillment are timeless/5(57). · Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron. published [Set in extracts from book] It was an unusually warm spring day. She removed the jacket she was wearing over a sleeveless dress and felt the sun on her arms and face. It was a new dress, her best dress, navy blue with white polka www.doorway.ru: Clothes In Books.
Young Coral Glynn, a nurse, arrives at Hart House, an isolated mansion in the countryside, to care for the terminally ill Mrs. Maud Hart. Other than Mrs. Hart, the house is populated only by the housekeeper, Mrs. Prence, who takes an almost-immediate dislike to Coral, and Mrs. Hart's somewhat-estranged son, Clement, who was injured in World War. FSG published Cameron's fourth novel, The City of Your Final Destination, in , and his fifth novel, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, in FSG published Cameron's sixth novel, Coral Glynn, in February of His work has been translated into a dozen languages. At first blush, Peter Cameron's Coral Glynn is a curio—an atmospheric period piece. In its simplicity, it seems a throwback to midth-century domestic novels, but with echoes of Jane Eyre—a sort of Gothic lite. However, its concerns with repressed homosexuality, lies of omission and whether it's preferable to settle for 'a quiet, decent.
Coral Glynn was the third nurse to arrive in as many months; it was unclear what, exactly, had driven her predecessors away, although there was much conjecture on the subject in the town. First it was supposed that the Major was perhaps a Lothario, and had made disreputable advances, although he had never acted that way before—in fact, he had always seemed to hold himself above romance of any kind. A period novel observed through a refreshingly gimlet eye, Coral Glynn explores how quickly need and desire can blossom into love, and just as quickly transform into something less categorical. Borrowing from themes and characters prevalent in the work of mid-twentieth-century British women writers, Peter Cameron examines how we live and how we love - with his customary empathy and wit. Peter Cameron’s period novel, Coral Glynn, is about people who believe they are out of options and act, or fail to act, out of desperation. In , a young private nurse named Coral Glynn arrives at Hart House in the remote English countryside to care for elderly Edith Hart, who is dying of cancer.
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