Book description
The third in the classic trilogy of novels about the Eliots of
Damerosehay . David Eliot finds his career as a successful and much
acclaimed actor a definite strain and his brittle conversation and
seeming arrogance earn him the dislike of his new secretary Sebastian
Weber. But when he comes to stay at Damerosehay Sebastian learns that in
the private world of his marriage and his children David is a very
different person, and the warmth of his welcome there helps him to
overcome his great personal suffering and unhappiness. 'Miss Goudge
has the art of presenting men and women, to say nothing of children, as
genuinely convincing persons, too human to be either wholly good or
wholly bad' Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900
in Wells, Somerset, where her father was Principal of Wells Theological
College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career, her
parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in
her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC, set in Guernsey, was a
great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944)
projected her to fame, netting a Literary Guild Award and a special
prize of £30,000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed. In her
later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on
April 1st, 1984.
