Beautifully haunting tale of unconventional heroism.
Larchfield could be the perfect read for anyone seeking a captivating and poignant story. With echoes of Possession and the ingenuity of Longbourn, this novel will transport you to 1930s Scotland, following the parallel lives of two poets, Dora and Wystan, as they navigate the challenges of small-town life and societal expectations. The unique and distinctive feature of this book lies in its exploration of human connection and the power of imagination, ultimately inspiring readers to find their own bravery and transcend the ordinary.
ISBN: 9781786481924
Authors:
Polly Clark
Publisher: Quercus Books
Date of Publication: 2017-03-23
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.59
(rated by 821 readers)
Description
It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether.Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London. Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.The need for human connection compels these two vulnerable outsiders to find each other and make a reality of their own that will save them both. Echoing the depths of Possession, the elegance of The Stranger's Child and the ingenuity of Longbourn, Larchfield is a beautiful and haunting novel about heroism - the unusual bravery that allows unusual people to go on living; to transcend banality and suffering with the power of their imagination.
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