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In The Dark Deborah Moggach

In The Dark By Deborah Moggach

In The Dark by Deborah Moggach


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In The Dark by Deborah Moggach

1916, pretty young Eithne Clay runs a shabby genteel South London boarding house while her gentle, dreamy husband is off at the War. Her 14 year old son Ralph dotes on his mother, but has adolescent thoughts he'd rather hide from her. Winnie, the young maid, is a homely, goodhearted country girl, rejected by Archie, the cheeky butcher's boy before he too is called up. When the dreaded telegram arrives at the house... things turn from difficult to desperate for the two young women. The lodgers are a curious but necessary burden - the Spooner family, with shell-shocked husband, sad wife and tiny, knowing daughter; Boyce Argyle, man about town and hero to young Ralph but recently missing; and blind Alwyne Flyte, communist and cynic, victim of a gas attack in the trenches. And then along comes the butcher, Neville Turk, big handsome ladies' man, irresistible for his meat, money and brutish confidence, who throws flighty Eithne into a turmoil, but has sinister plans of his own. Winnie and the blind lodger , meanwhile, conduct a strange, erotic liaison based on the fact that he can't see her... And young Ralph, ignored by his mother in favour of the butcher, looks on - feeling the unde

About Deborah Moggach

Deborah Moggach is the author of sixteen successful novels including most recently These Foolish Things and the best-selling Tulip Fever. She wrote the screenplays for the film of "Pride and Prejudice" and TV's acclaimed "Love in a Cold Climate."

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GOR010937874
9780701181611
0701181613
In The Dark by Deborah Moggach
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Vintage Publishing
2007-05-03
320
N/A
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