The fourth and final volume of the Herries Chronicles, described as 'incomparably the best' in The Daily Telegraph is a love story of 'effortless brilliance' (Observer) which starts with the triumph of Judith Paris's hundredth birthday in the 1870's and then moves to the tragic disillusionment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Set, predominantly, as before, amidst the grandeur of the lake district landscape, it tells the passionate and unforgettable story of Vanessa, Judith's Granddaughter and her n'er-do-well cousin Benjie whom she had sworn in childhood never to betray.
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Fiction in glorious, sweeping measure, set against wild and beautiful scenery and crowded with fairs, balls, weddings, duels, witches, abductions, murder and romance. For those that haven't yet read Hugh Walpole there is a treat in store for you. Surely a welcome Christmas gift? Keswick Reminder Walpole's hamfisted, messy and eccentric attempt at the Great Lakeland Novel still deserves to be read. The episodes - by turns gracelessly ornate and bleakly brilliant - remain strangely enthralling and memorable, their self-indulgence a guilty pleasure for the reader too. In the Herries novels, Walpole confessed, he had allowed himself to be, for the first time in his adult life, "what I really am - a little boy telling stories in the dormitory". Times Literary Supplement
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The fourth and final volume of The Herries Chronicle, which recounts the dramatic fortunes of one family from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century, in a magnificent Lake District setting. Here is fiction in glorious, sweeping measure, set against wild and beautiful scenery and crowded with fairs, balls, weddings, duels, witches, abductions, murder and romance.
Vanessa opens with the triumph of Judith Paris's hundredth birthday in the 1870s and moves through tragic disillusionment to the early twentieth century. Set predominantly amidst the grandeur of the Lake District landscape, it tells the passionate and unforgettable story of Vanessa, Judith's granddaughter and her ne'er-do-well cousin Benjie, whom she had sworn in childhood never to betray.
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Hill Street, Lady Herries, Miss Fortescue, Cat Bells, Aunt Jane, Miss Culloden, Miss Paris, Barney Newmark, Will Leathwaite, South Africa, Benjie Herries, Lettice Marrable, Mary Newmark, Fell House, Rose Ormerod, Judith Paris, Emily Newmark, Benjamin Herries, Timothy Bellairs, Portland Place, May Rockage, Peile Worcester, Rogue Herries, Eaton Place, Tite Street Browse Sample Pages:
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Hill Street, Lady Herries, Miss Fortescue, Cat Bells, Aunt Jane, Miss Culloden, Miss Paris, Barney Newmark, Will Leathwaite, South Africa, Benjie Herries, Lettice Marrable, Mary Newmark, Fell House, Rose Ormerod, Judith Paris, Emily Newmark, Benjamin Herries, Timothy Bellairs, Portland Place, May Rockage, Peile Worcester, Rogue Herries, Eaton Place, Tite Street Browse Sample Pages:
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