One Fine Day (Herald Classics)
By:
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into Bookshare to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- It&’s a summer&’s day in 1946. The English village of Wealding is no longer troubled by distant sirens, yet the rustling coils of barbed wire are a reminder that something, some quality of life, has evaporated. Together again after years of separation, Laura and Stephen Marshall and their daughter Victoria, are forced to manage without &“those anonymous caps and aprons who lived out of sight and pulled the strings.&” Their rambling garden refuses to be tamed, the house seems perceptibly to crumble. But alone on a hillside, as evening falls, Laura comes to see what it would have meant if the war had been lost, and looks to the future with a new hope and optimism. First published in 1947, this subtle, finely wrought novel presents a memorable portrait of the aftermath of war, its effect upon a marriage, and the gradual but significant change in the nature of English middle-class life.
- Copyright:
- 1947
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781454959557
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781454959540
- Publisher:
- Union Square & Co.
- Date of Addition:
- 05/06/25
- Copyrighted By:
- Mollie Panter-Downes
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Introduction by:
- Elisa Gabbert