Continuing the saga begunin Jubilee, Festival follows the fortunes of three families during the increasing optimism of post-war Britain. As the heart of the story is Poppy,whose catering business is proving successfulas rationing and food shortages end. The Festival of Britain in 1951 seems to sybolisem this new spiritof hope. Yet for one member of the family Cloe, these were bitter years - a marriage in ruins and a baby rejected. It was this baby that was to be both a new burden and a new joy to Poppy.
- ISBN10 0297840495
- ISBN13 9780297840497
- Publish Date 17 October 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 July 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English