First Love, Last Love [Hardcover]

Judith Saxton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1993

Two English sisters brought up in a fishing village on the coast of the North Sea find their lives forever changed by the events of the 1930s and 1940s.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Energetic characters in believable situations and an intensely evoked sense of place give life to Saxton's ( The Pride ) WW II-era tale of three British families. In the 1930s , Henry and Dora Cream earn an adequate living from North Sea fishing, and are proud of their two daughters: Lizzie, a stunningly attractive teenager, and Sybil, 10, who is plain-looking but exceptionally bright. The girls form close friendships with Ralph and Christina Winterton, whose wealthy family summers near the Creams' seaside cottage. While these four youngsters become inextricably bound, a brash Jewish boy named Fenn Kitzman flees his abusive relatives in Manchester and stows away on a freighter bound for New York. The war brings profound changes. Ralph's unsavory side is revealed and Lizzie becomes tragically estranged from her close-knit family. On a windswept beach, Fenn, now an American pilot based in England, meets Sybil. Saxton's keenly observed settings and period details, ranging from a spot "where the gorse grows and the larks nest" to the carefully described contents of a fisherman's cottage, give this story gratifying immediacy.
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Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; Second Impression edition (March 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312087799
• ISBN-13: 978-0312087791
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,663,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)