Elizabeth Goudge THE JOY OF THE SNOW First Edition

The book is in very good condition indeed (Clean green cloth boards with gold lettering on spine) with only slight wear to the dust jacket (slight creasing to the edges, one small closed tear at the top corner near spine), which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.

From the dust jacket blurb: Elizabeth Goudge writes:

'This book is an attempt to recapture happy memories and with them some of the joy in places and people that I have known, and share them. And to share, too, some of the conclusions I have come to about work and life.

Old age, I find, is a time when you start doing all the things that in earlier years you reprobated in older people, and were quite certain you would never do yourself, and if there was one thing more than another that I was determined not to do, it was to write an autobiography. But I was asked to do it by a few friends of the type to whom one says, in the words of Philip Sidney, "Your desire to my heart is an absolute commandment." And so I obeyed.'

This wise and beautiful autobiography answers in the most natural way possible the multitude of letters asking Elizabeth Goudge how far the people and places in her novels are 'true'. Here they will find a record of the rainbow days of her childhood at Wells, the City of Bells, and the Island Magic of her annual summer holiday in Guernsey. They will find some delightful writing about Edwardian clothes, aunts, nannies, and get to know the intensely shy, compassionate, often solitary but never lonely only child she was, her mother very delicate, her father adored but not someone to whom she became close until later life.

268 pages and index. Illustrated with black and white photographs.

ISBN: 0 340 185317

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