Requirements: epub reader, 346 kb
Overview: In the years following the First World War, the lives of the Lorimers centre on Blaize, Alexa Lorimer’s stately home beside the Thames.
Living on the peaceful estate and sharing the long years of her widowhood is Matthew Lorimer, the man she loves but can never marry, and her sister Margaret, whose love and dedication has held the family together.
Abroad, there are Lorimers scattered across the world – in Russia, India, Malaya and Hollywood – but all are drawn back to Blaize by their devotion to Margaret.
Among the younger generation, Frisca changes from a bouncing schoolgirl into a talented dancer and two of her cousins are overwhelmed by her beauty and glamour, while Barbary, orphaned and shy, feels the exquisite pain of first love.
Kate Lorimer sees the ideals which kept her in Russia after the Revolution betrayed and loses her lover in one of Stalin’s purges. Her daughter, Ilsa, and the English relatives she has never met are all in different ways victims of the Second World War: in concentration camps, air raids, prisoner-of-war camps or simply through separation.
Alexa, indomitable, survives, and the doors of Blaize remain open to the children who will keep the family alive.
Genre: General Fiction
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