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The author of the New York Times Notable Book The Dower House, known for her elegant prose and her keen eye for the nuances of class, now adds the lush, large-screen immediacy of a Merchant-Ivory film to her compelling tale of a woman and a culture forever changed by World War II.
Only a few days after Daisy Creed precipitously marries Patrick Nugent, scion of an Anglo-Irish family, Patrick rejoins his regiment in France. Having never met her in-laws, Daisy sets sail for her new home, Dunmaine, County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand and forbidding on the outside, decaying and corrupt within. Patrick's vain, spoiled sister, Corisande, soon flees to her lover, leaving Daisy alone with Patrick's feeble brother, Mickey, and grandmother, Maud, who has taken to her bed. In her determination to save Dunmaine and secure her place as its mistress, Daisy unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous political plot, as old and as fraught as The Troubles.
With grace and wit, Davis-Goff portrays a lost way of life and the war
that rendered it obsolete. In the character of Daisy Creed she has created
an unforgettable Everywoman of her time--part Elizabeth Bennett, part Scarlett O'Hara.
Only a few days after Daisy Creed precipitously marries Patrick Nugent, scion of an Anglo-Irish family, Patrick rejoins his regiment in France. Having never met her in-laws, Daisy sets sail for her new home, Dunmaine, County Waterford. The family's affairs echo its estate: grand and forbidding on the outside, decaying and corrupt within. Patrick's vain, spoiled sister, Corisande, soon flees to her lover, leaving Daisy alone with Patrick's feeble brother, Mickey, and grandmother, Maud, who has taken to her bed. In her determination to save Dunmaine and secure her place as its mistress, Daisy unwittingly becomes an accomplice in a dangerous political plot, as old and as fraught as The Troubles.
With grace and wit, Davis-Goff portrays a lost way of life and the war
that rendered it obsolete. In the character of Daisy Creed she has created
an unforgettable Everywoman of her time--part Elizabeth Bennett, part Scarlett O'Hara.
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- Title This Cold Country
- Author Davis-Goff, Annabel
- Binding Trade Cloth
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Language EN
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, New York
- Date 2002-05-01
- ISBN 9780151008476
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PRAISE FOR THE DOWER HOUSE
"The book feels like a Christmas dinner: rich, heavy, extravagant, lush and traditional in a way that no one would dream of objecting to."--The New York Times Book Review
"Fine and poignant . . . A richly comic, tender evocation of Ireland's dwindling, splendid Anglo-Irish."--Kirkus Reviews
"The book feels like a Christmas dinner: rich, heavy, extravagant, lush and traditional in a way that no one would dream of objecting to."--The New York Times Book Review
"Fine and poignant . . . A richly comic, tender evocation of Ireland's dwindling, splendid Anglo-Irish."--Kirkus Reviews
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