In 1915, when the girls of Madame Pennington's finishing school, near London, return from their annual Easter egg hunt, they discover that their beautiful, seventeen-year-old prefect, Madeleine, has disappeared...
In her tenth and most powerful novel to date, Gillian Freeman vividly recreates the London theatre world of Victorian England and counterpoises this life of frivolity and artifice with the position of Jews - both rich and poor - in the wider society....
This fictitious account of the Bloomsbury Group-an unconventional and forward-thinking artist collective-follows the lives and careers of those who had a profound effect on art and literature in the first half of the 20th century. Central members Van...
'Brilliant study of neo-Nazi anti-Semitism ... Gillian Freeman is among the finest contemporary novelists.' - Brigid Brophy, New Statesman
'Undoubtedly the best of her novels ... an exact and finely observed account of the lunatic right-wing...