This semi-autobiographical book is about the life of a young English woman who marries an ageing German aristocrat and in the marriage she focuses on her garden and children, at the same time running a country house.She also writes down her observations of the stuffy German aristocratic set using her razor sharp wit.Von Arnim was a successful author in her time and deserves to be re-discovered, this novel is a gem. In the first year of publication this book was re-printed twenty times. Von Arnim wrote another 20 books that were all published.
| ISBN: | 9781781665206 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2012 |
| Author: | von Arnim, Elizabeth |
| Publisher: | Andrews UK |
| Format: | Ebook (Epub) |