In a parish of wealthy women, Rose Antrobus forms a committee to decide who should benefit from a small bequest left to charity. Secretly she hopes the money will go to the Peachey family - a mother cruelly abandoned and looking after her three young children on a pittance. But the situation isn't as simple as all that, and soon it causes unexpceted ructions and confrontations - and Rose finds herself turning back the clock to remember a childhood vacation spent at the Marigny chateau in France ... a vacation which, thirty years later, is to provide the solution to her dilemma.
'The dialogue is subtle and the atmosphere of the French visits economically and brilliantly conveyed.' A. S. Byatt
- ISBN10 0099565102
- ISBN13 9780099565109
- Publish Date 6 April 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Arrow Books (A Division of Random House Group)
- Imprint Arena Arrow
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 208
- Language English