DESCRIPTION: The Cypress Room... Seven-year-old Laura's new friend was called Joan. She had a red satin dress and wore her hair in ringlets. Laura's very correct family disapproved. Joan, and her parents, were too flamboyant by far. In turn-of-the-century Edinburgh class distinctions were carefully observed and nurtured. Joan was not suitable and the friendship must end. Some years later the two girls meet again at school. Now Laura was fascinated as much by Joan's charmingly bohemian parents as by Joan herself. Again Laura's family - her mother in particular - was almost violently opposed to the friendship. But this time the two girls realised that there were personal emotions and jealousies from their parents' past that lay behind the prohibition. As the girls grew up, separated during the 1914 - 1918 war, married and gradually grew together again, they slowly unravelled the tangled passions of their parents' lives and found that they could not escape the effects of an old family disgrace and tragedy.
AUTHOR: Gillian Nelson
ISBN: 9780450053177 BINDING: softcover PAGES: 236 Year: 1983 Size: 111mm x 177mm x 17mm Condition: new or used available only from Amazon
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