Born into an aristocratic family, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and debutante balls. But Amy, curious about the world beyond the narrow confines of her class, is ill-suited to a life of indulgence. Eagerly embracing a nursing career, she is drawn into the radical politics of the day. As the spectre of war looms, Amy's bittersweet love for the proud miner Nick Penry - a love which defies the differences between them - leads them to the conflict in Spain, where love and pain become inseparable agonies.
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From Publishers Weekly
In the calm between two world wars, Amy Lovell searches for a pathway out of the gracious drawing rooms of the English upper class. She needs more purpose to her life than the glittering social whirl her soigne mother enjoys, and the seamier, but no less costly pastimes of her amusing brother, Richard. Above all, Amy has no wish to share the fate of her sister, Isabelle, married to a Conservative politician whose abuse drives his gentle wife mad. On a lark, Amy attends a meeting of communist sympathizers, through whom she meets Nick Penry, a grim-faced union organizer from a Welsh mining town. With his anger as her goad, she decides to train as a nurse at the Royal Lambeth Hospital, an institution full of starch, but lacking in heart. The ties that bind Nick to his wife and child are nearly dissolved by his love affair with Amy, but even she can't separate him from politics, and Nick enlists to fight against the Fascists in the Spanish Civil War. From her vantage point nursing the wounded, Amy shares his horror over a conflict that will irrevocably change them both. Thoroughly engaging characters distinguish this warm, vivid portrait of an era by the author of Sunrise. 50,000 first printing; first serial to Cosmopolitan; Literary Guild Dual main selection.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The widely different worlds of impoverished Welsh mining towns and English country estates collide when Nick Penry, miner's union representative, and Amy Lovell, daughter of an American heiress and an English peer, meet at a strike demonstration in the years between the two World Wars. Each has transcended the narrow confines of his classNick as a political activist, Amy as a nurseand they recognize and respect this strength in the other. Respect becomes a wary friendship and later love. The idyllic affair ends when they volunteer for the Civil War in Spain, where the grimness of war and political fanaticism test their convictions and determine their futures. Major and peripheral characters and classes are sympathetically and sensitively drawn. Highly recommended. Literary Guild dual main selection. Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Not a book to lift your spirits,
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This is the story of the life of Amy Lowell from about age 4 until her early twenties. This is not an easy book to read. First of all, it's over 600 pages long and full of politics and war. There are many tradegies throughout this book -- in fact almost all are. The Lowell family is extremely atypical. There are almost no happy parts to this book. I wanted to like it because I liked the characters very much especially Amy and Nick, but it was too depressing. Even the ending wasn't what I would have liked it to be although probably true to life.
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This beautiful written novel is a historical gem for Wales and the time between the two world wars. The characters are drawn in such detail and the imaginary so vivid that you are helplessly pulled into each scene. Your mood will be affected as you experience each tradegy and watch the brilliant come back of the characters.
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