Leaving Home by Keillor Garrison

Leaving Home by Keillor Garrison

When cautious Emma Roberts goes to France to carry out research into 17th-century garden design, she finds a reliable diversion from her studies in her unlikely new friend Francoise Desnoyers, in whose beautiful house she is welcomed as a guest. She is not too dazzled to ignore the tensions that exist between Francoise and her formidable mother, or between Mme. Desnoyers and her other guests.

London recedes into the background as life in France becomes more significant in every respect. It is not until the horrifying episode that puts an end to this fascination that Emma is reconciled to her duller but safer life at home and to the compromises that she comes to accept.

Anita Brookner was born in south London in 1928, the daughter of a Polish immigrant family. She trained as an art historian, and worked at the Courtauld Institute of Art until her retirement in 1988. She published her first novel, A Start in Life, in 1981 and her 24th, Strangers, in 2009. As well as fiction, Anita Brookner has published a number of volumes of art criticism.

Garrison Keillor is the host of Public Radio International's A Prairie Home Companion and the author of many novels. He coauthored The Sandy Bottom Orchestra, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, with his wife Jenny Lind Nilsson, and wrote two picture books for younger readers. His adult titles include Lake Wobegon Days, Leaving Home, and The Book of Guys. He lives in Minnesota with his family.
Robin Preiss Glasser is a former ballerina who has become one of the most sought-after illustrators in the children's book business. She has illustrated more than fifteen children's stories, including Fancy Nancy, by Jane O'Connor; America: A Patriotic Primer, and A is for Abigail: An Almanac of Amazing American Women, both by Lynne Cheney; and You Can't Take a Balloon into the Metropolitan Museum, by Jacqueline Weitzman, which was an ALA Notable Book and a American Bookseller Pick of the Lists. She lives with her family in California.

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ISBN 13	9780670819768
ISBN 10	067081976X
Title	Leaving Home
Author	Keillor Garrison
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	1987-09-24
Number of pages	272
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