204 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 10. Mai 1974 von Gollancz veröffentlicht.

Celia Fremlin: The hours before dawn (1974, Gollancz)
204 Seiten
Sprache: English
Am 10. Mai 1974 von Gollancz veröffentlicht.
If you are a student of seemingly minor social niceties and/or barbs you will thoroughly enjoy this tale of a woman who struggles to please her family, friends and neighbors while trying to ignore the signs of something bizarre happening. The play of the petty one-up-man-ship of the characters is superb and eminently believable in this depiction of an ordinary mother and wife living in England in the mid 1900s. The tension mounts slowly and remorselessly, culminating in a nerve-racking conclusion.