Frost In May

Frost In May
Author: Antonia White
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748127488

'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life. This story of a clash between a determined young girl and an authoritarian regime is both perceptive and painfully emotional, convincing in every detail' - Hermione Lee, Observer With a new introduction by Tessa Hadley Nanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please, she accepts this closed world where, with all the enthusiasm of the outsider, her desires and passions become only those the school permits. Her only deviation from total obedience is the passionate friendships she makes. Convent life is perfectly captured - the smell of beeswax and incense; the petty cruelties of the nuns; the eccentricities of Nanda's school friends. Books in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

The Lost Traveller

The Lost Traveller
Author: Antonia White
Publisher: Virago
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748127623

When Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative freedom, she misses the discipline the nuns imposed and worries about keeping her faith in a secular world. Against the background of the First World War, Clara experiences the confusions of adolescence - its promise, its threat of change. She longs for love, yet fears it, and wonders what the future will hold. Then tragedy strikes and her childhood haltingly comes to an end as she realises that neither parents nor her faith can help her. The Lost Traveller is the first in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which continues with The Sugar House and Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

Antonia White

Antonia White
Author: Jane Dunn
Publisher: Virago Press
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2000
Genre: Manic-depressive persons
ISBN: 9781860497957

Oh I DID want to be happy as a woman. But I'm a monster and must accept being one. Not all writers are monsters. But my kind is. Antonia White is best known for Frost in May, for having come back from Bedlam hospital and madness, and for the public feud between her daughters over the editing of her diaries. This biography aims to tell the complete story of a life courageously lived against the most difficult odds. This is the story of a woman who - two generations too soon - attempted to live the modern female life of single parent and working mother, but longed for the artistic and intellectual stage.

Beyond The Glass

Beyond The Glass
Author: Antonia White
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2011-02-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0748127410

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks. Beyond the Glass completes the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and The Sugar House. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

The Shackle

The Shackle
Author: Colette
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1982-06-01
Genre: France
ISBN: 9780345300584

Having given up her music-hall career to sort out the strands of her life, Renee Nere enters into an affair with a younger man which both satisfies and constrains

Snakey Riddles

Snakey Riddles
Author: Katy Hall
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9780780722842

Puffin Easy-to-Read Level 3.

Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness

Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness
Author: Patricia Moran
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1474418228

By contextualising White's life-writing and fiction within the contexts of manic-depression and narrative identity, Antonia White and Manic-Depressive Illness proposes a new model for reading White.

Claudine And Annie

Claudine And Annie
Author: Colette
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2011-04-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1446467465

THE STORIES THAT INSPIRED THE FILM COLETTE, out Jan 2019. In this final novel in Colette's famous series it is Claudine's friend Annie who tells the story in the form of a private diary. Claudine is happily settled with her adored husband Renaud, spending her time giving wide and worldly advice to despairing Annie, whose life with the boring and dominating Alain is set to dramatically change. With the help of Claudine, Annie takes steps to empower her own life, a life away from her husband. Though Colette's intoxicating series of novels emerges a portrait of Claudine an intelligent, modern woman whose life is always honest, passionate and inspiring.

Antonia White: 1958-1979

Antonia White: 1958-1979
Author: Antonia White
Publisher: Trans-Atlantic Publications
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1991
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: