by Antonia White · HarperCollins Distribution Services · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006164210
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Frost in May» is the novel by Antonia White, published by HarperCollins Distribution Services in paperback (506 pages, in English).
Nanda Gray, daughter of a convert to Catholicism, arrives at the age of nine at the Convent of the Five Wounds, a Catholic boarding school with rigid discipline. The story portrays her adaptation to a cloistered life where obedience and authority permeate everything, while friendship becomes her only space of freedom.
First instalment of the «Frost in May» series, comprising four novels; this volume brings together «Frost in May» and «The Lost Traveller».
For readers of classic British fiction, with an interest in boarding school stories, faith and religious education.
Antonia White was a British writer and translator, known primarily for Frost in May, a semi-autobiographical novel set in a convent school. It was the first book reissued by Virago Press in 1978, as part of their Modern Classics series of books by previously neglected women authors.
