Ann Bridge

Emergency in the Pyrenees (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Philip Jamieson, husband of Julia (who has appeared in earlier Ann Bridge stories as the enchanting Miss Probyn) decides that she shall go to his house in the Pyrenees while he himself has to be in the Middle East on a special mission, as they are expecting their first child. It is a very male decision: the village is remote, with few facilities. In fact it proves to be most unsuitable and inconvenient. Fortunately, Julia is succoured by efficient and attentive neighbours. There are, for instance, Nick and Dick, the twin sons of Lord and Lady Heriot, who live at Pau: there is also Bonne-court, climber, guide and hunter (who is not averse to conducting far more secret business). Above all Julia secures the companionship of the 'angelic Luzia', daughter of the Duke of Ericeira; who is among Ann Bridge's best creations. The 'emergency' proves to be of a double nature - one of espionage as well as of domestic crisis, and the reader is firmly held in the grip of the intricate and exciting plot, in which a romantic theme is also interwoven. Ann Bridge is a writer whose characters never fail to spring to life, and her understanding of peoples of many nations is allied with a strong, convincing narrative. The mood of her book is one of sunlight and happiness, in contrast to the squalor and disenchantment of so much modern fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781448203642
• Artikelnr.: 38311827

Autorenporträt

Ann Bridge (1889-1974), or Lady Mary Dolling (Sanders) O'Malley was born in Hertfordshire. Bridge's novels concern her experiences of the British Foreign Office community in Peking in China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realized settings and demure social satire.

Bridge went on to write novels around a serious investigation of modern historical developments. In the 1970s Bridge began to write thrillers centered on a female amateur detective, Julia Probyn, as well writing travel books and family memoirs. Her books were praised for their faithful representation of foreign countries which was down to personal experience and thorough research.