| Second Time Around Contributor(s): Willett, Marcia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312306660 ISBN-13: 9780312306663 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin OUR PRICE: $18.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2008 Annotation: In this fourth early novel from bestselling author Marcia Willett, Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her home to three unknown relatives: 22-year-old Tessa who misses her dead parents and brother, but has learnt to live alone; Will, a widow, who is drawn to Mathilda's housekeeper Isobel; and Beatrice, a retired prep-school matron, who thinks the idea of living with her cousins preposterous. Deeply moving and utterly real, "Second Time Around" features the shining honesty that Willett's fans have come to love. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Family Life - General - Fiction | Women |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2008026258 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.90 lbs) 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this latest early novel from bestselling author Marcia Willett, Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her home to three unknown relatives: twenty-two-year-old Tessa, who misses her dead parents and brother but has learned to live alone; Will, a widower, who is drawn to Mathilda's housekeeper, Isobel; and Beatrice, a retired prep-school matron who thinks the idea of living with her cousins is preposterous. Deeply moving and utterly real, Second Time Around features the shining honesty that Willett's fans have come to love. |
Contributor Bio(s): Willett, Marcia: - Born in Somerset, in the west country of England, on the day the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Marcia Willett was the youngest of five girls. Her family was unconventional and musical, but Marcia chose to train as a ballet dancer. Unfortunately her body did not develop with the classical proportions demanded by the Royal Ballet, so she studied to be a ballet teacher. Her first husband was a naval officer in the submarine service, with whom she had a son, Charles, now married and training to be a clergyman. Her second husband, Rodney, himself a writer and broadcaster, encouraged Marcia to write novels. She has published several novels in England; A Week in Winter is the first to be published in the United States. |
