The Balkan Trilogy #02: The Spoilt City

The Balkan Trilogy #02: The Spoilt City
Olivia Manning
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 368pg
11 Feb 2021 UK
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9781786091550
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It is 1940, and Guy and Harriet Pringle and their friends in the English colony in Bucharest find their position growing ever more precarious. The ' phoney war' is over and invasion by the Germans is an ever-present threat. Harriet finds her new husband' s idealism clashing with her own more down-to-earth attitudes, his generosity to all comers frustrating her attempts to survive in a city of shortages. Their easy life among Bucharest' s cafe society is gradually eroded as rumours become reality, and the Germans march in.

(Omnibus)
#02: Spoilt City, The
#03: Friends And Heroes

Magnificent . . . full of wit, sharp insight and vivid description. * The Times * Wonderfully entertaining * Observer * A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war -- Sarah Waters So glittering is the overall parade . . . and so entertaining the surface that the trilogy remains excitingly vivid; it amuses, it diverts and it informs, and to do these things so elegantly is no small achievement * Sunday Times * One most salute the brilliance . . . the exactness of sights and sounds, the precise touches of light and scent, the gestures and entrances. * Guardian *
Olivia Manning, OBE, was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire, spent much of her youth in Ireland and, as she puts it, had ' the usual Anglo-Irish sense of belonging nowhere' . The daughter of a naval officer, she produced her first novel, The Wind Changes, in 1937. She married just before the War and went abroad with her husband, R. D. Smith, a British Council lec-turer in Bucharest. Her experiences there formed the basis of the work which makes up The Balkan Trilogy. As the Germans approached Athens, she and her husband evacuated to Egypt and ended up in charge of the Palestine Broadcasting Station. They returned to London in 1946 and lived there until her death in 1980.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781786091550
Published: 11 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Windmill Books
Publisher: Cornerstone
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 255g
Pages: 368

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