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The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith

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Antonia White, author of the acclaimed quartet of novels Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, and Beyond the Glass, wrote no autobiography: indeed, her four famous novels, now televised by BBCTV, were based on her own life, wonderfully transforming fact into fiction.

The Hound and the Falcon tells us more. In 1940 Antonia White was divorced, the mother of two small children, a lapsed Catholic of fifteen years standing. One day, out of the blue, she received a letter from an unknown admirer of Frost in May published seven years earlier. She replied and so began an intense correspondence which, published here, becomes a partial autobiography of this extraordinary woman. Written in London during the Blitz, the book is redolent of Britain at War, and tells us a great deal about what happened next to the heroine-author of the great quartet of novels which have delighted readers, and which now reach a new audience through their triumphant dramatisation by BBC Television.

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Virago

Release: December 31, 1980

ISBN: 0860681726

ISBN 13: 9780860681724

The Hound and the Falcon: The Story of a Reconversion to the Catholic Faith

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Antonia White, author of the acclaimed quartet of novels Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, and Beyond the Glass, wrote no autobiography: indeed, her four famous novels, now televised by BBCTV, were based on her own life, wonderfully transforming fact into fiction.

The Hound and the Falcon tells us more. In 1940 Antonia White was divorced, the mother of two small children, a lapsed Catholic of fifteen years standing. One day, out of the blue, she received a letter from an unknown admirer of Frost in May published seven years earlier. She replied and so began an intense correspondence which, published here, becomes a partial autobiography of this extraordinary woman. Written in London during the Blitz, the book is redolent of Britain at War, and tells us a great deal about what happened next to the heroine-author of the great quartet of novels which have delighted readers, and which now reach a new audience through their triumphant dramatisation by BBC Television.

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Virago

Release: December 31, 1980

ISBN: 0860681726

ISBN 13: 9780860681724

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