A House in Flanders (Edition 2) (Paperback)

from laytonwoman3rd

Bittersweet reminiscences of an adolescent summer spent in the country among "the aunts" and their neighbors outside a small village in the north of France, a few years after the end of World War II. Each chapter is a reflection on one individual who shared and contributed to that life-changing s...

from franhigg

In this somewhat gloomy book Michael Jenkins, a distinguished diplomat, looks back to 1951 when, as a young teenager, he spent a summer holiday with several elderly pseudo-relatives in a 'great house' in Flanders which, like the inhabitants, had seen better days. Jenkins writes easily and well, a...

from overthemoon

This appealing little book bound in warm, coarse blue cloth has a 1950s feel, appropriate to the narrative set in the early 1950s in France. The author, several decades after the event, reminiscences on a 2-month stay he made at the age of 14, in a house in the north of France, with some tenuous ...