Half the World in Winter
Author(s): Maggie Joel
A captivating drama of family secrets and tragedies...It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and eighteen-year-old Dinah looks for fulfilment in unusual places. Only the housekeeper, the estimable Mrs Logan, seems able to carry on...A train accident in a provincial town on the railway Lucas owns claims the life of nine-year-old Alice Brinklow and, amid the public outcry, Alice's father, Thomas, journeys to London demanding justice. As he arrives in the Capital on a frozen January morning his fate, and that of the entire Jarmyn family, will hinge on such strange things as an ill-fated visit to a spiritualist, an errant chicken bone and a single vote cast at a board room meeting...Written with charm, humour and rich period detail, Maggie Joel has created an intriguing novel of a Victorian family adrift in their rapidly changing world...
Product Information
Maggie Joel has been writing fiction since the mid-1990s and her short stories have been widely published in Southerly, Westerly, Island, Overland and Canberra Arts Review, and broadcast on ABC radio.
General Fields
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- : Allen & Unwin
- : Allen & Unwin
- : 0.394625
- : 01 September 2015
- : 198mm X 128mm
- : Australia
- : 01 September 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Maggie Joel
- : Paperback
- : Oct-15
- : English
- : 823.4
- : 432