Book description
I>.
So intimately written that it appears to be an autobiography, it tells
the story of Christopher Jarmayne, a delicate, sensitive lad who suffers
a great deal from continued friction with the robust Yorkshire family
into which he was born. Filled with self-pity and resentment, he spends
an unhappy life until he realizes, in a moment of illumination, that he
is as tiresome to them as they are to him. In the light of this
revelation he tells the strange and poignant story of his life and, with
the wisdom gained from experience, he makes it a dramatic and
fascinating story of unusual power. I>is perhaps best known, and in
the same blunt, homely, Yorkshire tradition comes her novel Noble in
ReasonThe House of Moreys<
I>.
So intimately written that it appears to be an autobiography, it
tells the story of Christopher Jarmayne, a delicate, sensitive lad who
suffers a great deal from continued friction with the robust Yorkshire
family into which he was born. Filled with self-pity and resentment,
he spends an unhappy life until he realizes, in a moment of
illumination, that he is as tiresome to them as they are to him. In
the light of this revelation he tells the strange and poignant story
of his life and, with the wisdom gained from experience, he makes it a
dramatic and fascinating story of unusual power. I>is perhaps best
known, and in the same blunt, homely, Yorkshire tradition comes her
novel Noble in ReasonThe House of Moreys<
