The story of a quiet cathedral town, of an orphan who finds a new home, of two people who fight to separate themselves from the ghost of a man whose mystery has cast a spell that only his return can break, and of a dream that can only end with a new dawn.>
Classification : Historical Fiction
Pub Date : JUN 15, 2017
Imprint : Hodder and Stoughton
Page Extent : 320
Binding : PB
ISBN : 9781473655898
Price : INR 899
Elizabeth Goudge
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge was born on April 24th 1900 in Wells Somerset where her father was Principal of Wells Theological College. Although she had privately intended writing as a career her parents insisted she taught handicrafts in Oxford. She began writing in her spare time and her first novel ISLAND MAGIC set in Guernsey was a great success here and in America. GREEN DOLPHIN COUNTRY (1944) projected her to fame netting a Literary Guild Award and a special prize of £30000 from Louis B. Mayer of MGM before being filmed.
In her later years Elizabeth Goudge settled in Henley-on-Thames. She died on April 1st 1984.
