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A house carved fine as a jewellery box, a painted garden, an angel in a palm tree. These are only some of the marvels of the Russian estate on which Nina Karsavina grows up, surrounded by her beautiful mother, her eccentric father, Katya her elder sister and the housekeeper Darya who teaches her the old Russian folktales and traditions. But when her father gradually loses his mind after the death of her mother, Nina takes the difficult decision to leave her homeland behind and to marry a complete stranger. She arrives in England on the brink of the First World War and must adjust to a society very different from her own. Meanwhile, her sister Katya settles in Nice with her feckless husband. Over the next eighty years, the family will scatter across the globe in the wake of the Russian revolution and two world wars. It is only when Nina's own granddaughter Julia, an artist, begins a search for her roots that the family's tragic history can be pieced together for the first time.

About the Author :
Penny Sumner was born in Sydney and lived there till her teens before moving to the Gold Coast. She studied at the University of Queensland and then went to Oxford to do a Ph.D in English. Currently she lives eith her family in Newcastle-upon-Tyrne, where she teaches creative writing and contemporary Australian literature at Northumbria University. She has previously written shorter pieces of fiction and edited a number of anthologies.

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Wonderfully evocative with an epic historical sweep. - WESTERN MAIL Penny Sumner's inspired debut novel Tree of Angels ... takes the reader on an emotional journey through pre-revolutionary Russia to war-torn Britain and the tropics of Northern Australia ... wonderfully evocative. - OXFORD TIMES This is a great family saga covering 80 years ... There's a great sadness in the book but the story grips the reader from the early days of the century right through the wars and on to the new wrold. It is a meaty book, a story well told ... Sumner's next book will be eagerly awaited. - DUBLIN EVENING HERALD


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780752861265
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Orion
  • Height: 244 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 685 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0752861263
  • Publisher Date: 17 Jun 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 35 mm
  • Width: 165 mm


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