{"product_id":"9781911397274","title":"Four French Holidays : Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Hall, Anne, Schofield, Hugh \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFrance\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 1 March 2023 by Unicorn Publishing Group in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 144 pages, 26 Illustrations, unspecified\u003cbr\u003e240 x 166 x 18 | 484g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manque in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp's 1936 holiday in Southern France led to 'Still Waters' and The Nutmeg Tree: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel The Scapegoat was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons' last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43924944683267,"sku":"9781911397274","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781911397274_3b13ffcf-cdd4-49c9-8566-093005e0fdbd.jpg?v=1731410718","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9781911397274","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}