The Bird in the Tree: Book One of the Eliot Chronicles

Author(s): Elizabeth Goudge

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Lucilla has spent a lifetime making the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay a tranquil haven for the Eliot family. When her favourite grandson, David, falls in love with an unsuitable woman Lucilla feels is unsuitable, she sees her most cherished ambitions put at risk. But can she persuade David and Nadine to put duty before love?

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Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900 in Wells, Somerset, where her father was Principal of Wells Theological College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career, her parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC, set in Guernsey, was a great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944) projected her to fame, netting a Literary Guild Award and a special prize of GBP30,000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed.In her later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on April 1st, 1984.

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  • : 9781473655942
  • : Hodder & Stoughton General Division
  • : Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
  • : 01 January 2017
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 29 August 2017
  • : books

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  • : Elizabeth Goudge
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : 823.912
  • : 368