Saddle The Wind by Jess Foley
In a small village in the West Country a child is born- a baby girl, the fifth child of an impoverished labourer whose aspirations to be a painter are rapidly fading. For little Blanche the furture would appear bleak - survival, possibly; marriage possibly; drudgery certainly. It is by a stroke of good - and ill - fortune that Blanche's mother is requested at the 'big house', to suckle Marianne, the motherless daughter of John Saville whose wife has died at childbirth. And it is by good and ill fortune that the two babies, so different in their hopes, are brought up together caring for each other as sisters. But sisters they are not - as the outside world is keen to point out. Blanche is torn between her love for her real mother and her desire for a life of wealth and ease; and when her eye alight on Gentry, Marianne's intended husband, her struggle against selfishness is compounded. In this original and vivid saga, Jess Foley weaves a tale of passion and pain against a backgroud of unsentimentalised rural England.
Jess Foley was born in Wiltshire but moved to London to study at the Chelsea School of Art, and then worked for several years as a painter and actor before writing So Long At The Fair. This was followed by Too Close to the Sun. Jess lives in Blackheath, southeast London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844134526 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844134520 |
| Title | Saddle The Wind |
| Author | Jess Foley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2004-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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