In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of ease, and a ravishing garden. But as the political conflict gathers, so the atmosphere of their new home becomes increasingly unquiet and a tragic fate befalls them. THE LONG AFTERNOON enchants and involves the reader, just as the Williamsons' garden seduces its visitors.
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Giles Waterfield was brought up in Paris and Geneva. Having worked at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton and for sixteen years as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, in 1996 he abandoned arts administration in order to write, teach and curate exhibitions. This is his first novel.
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This book left me in tears as the characters in it had become so real that the circumstances in which they were placed almost took over me as I read from page one to the end and became increasingly mindful of scenes of my early childhood in rural Victoria, Australia. The characters in some way reminded me of my grandmother on my paternal side and the life of ease that had passed with the collapse of the jute futures market in the 1930's when the family fortunes were lost. The tensions between the two brothers, the pain of the life of the father made me mindful of my own family and brothers etc and so the whole book is a sensitive and creative mixture of peoples lives and their interactions in a bygone time in between the two world wars.
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