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The Sugar House
Clara Batchelor Trilogy (Related to this series)
- Author
- Antonia White
- Narrator
- Kim Bretton
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 44 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.
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- Author
- Antonia White
- Narrator
- Kim Bretton
- Duration
- 7 hours 44 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2024
- ISBN
- 9798350847949
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor, the heroine of The Lost Traveller, is now an actress with a touring repertory company and is passionately in love with the wholly unsuitable Stephen Tye. When Stephen betrays her, Clara betrays herself by agreeing to marry Archie, the fiance she discarded four years before. A friendship but not a love match, the marriage is a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. But neither of them are children any more and their dream sugar house begins to dissolve.The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.
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