![]() ![]() Part of a curated collection of forgotten works by early to mid-century women writers, the British Library Women Writers series highlights the best middlebrow fiction from the 1910s to the 1960s, offering escapism, popular appeal, and plenty of period detail to amuse, surprise, and inform. Her young life is shaped by a series of tragedies, but also the warmth of enduring friendships, particularly with David, her dearest friend who shares her love of the wild expanse and colors of the moor. ![]() ![]() Ruan is an intelligent and imaginative child, who gradually comes to understand the nuances of the adult world around her, as she moves from the Manse, under the strict rule of her father, a non-conformist minister, to Cobbetts, her mother's ancestral home, under the tutelage of her Uncle Alaric, and back to the guardianship of Rosie Day at Bolton House high up on the moor above the town where she was born. Despite the extraordinary and quite oppressive circumstances of her childhood, this is a joyous novel which is rooted in the firm and deeply devotional love for a boy, five years her senior. ![]() But then I remember that I have said that of many other days, so I cannot be sure.'Ī female narrator looks back on her childhood in a coming-of-age novel set before the First World War. An edition of O, the brave music (1943) O, The Brave Music by Dorothy Evelyn Smith. Smith Dorothy Evelyn Biographies Memoirs And General Nonficton Books - Buy Smith Dorothy Evelyn Biographies Memoirs And General. O The Brave Music’ is a coming of age novel about a young child who experiences a number of losses, early on in her life. 'Sometimes I think that was the happiest day of my life, those hours of heat and silence and colour, along with David high up on the moor. ![]()
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