The buying Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge

This edition of "A Scent of Water" by Elizabeth Goudge was published in 1963 by Hodder and Stoughton for The Book Club.


Details:
Good condition. Blue Boards with Black Lettering on Spine. Original dust jacket in good condition with some tiny shelf wear to the edges. Foxing to the page edges and mild foxing to the front end pages. Soiling on the back cover.

Story:
Mary Lindsay is a born and bred Londoner who has enjoyed her city life-a prestigious job, and friends with whom she takes in the city pleasures of theatre, art and music. But fleeting memories of a childhood visit to her father's elderly cousin out in the country are revived with the news that the woman has willed her home, the Laurels, to Mary. She makes an uncharacteristically sudden and life-changing decision to leave London for the country. The gradual unfolding of buying her understanding of herself, of the now-deceased woman who has bequeathed her home to Mary, and of the people of Appleshaw, all weave together in a most memorable story of love's redemptive power. (wiki)

Author:
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (1900 - 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse. Goudge was long a popular author in the UK and the US and regained attention decades later. Goudge's first book, The Fairies' Baby and Other Stories (1919), failed to sell and several years passed before she wrote her first novel, Island Magic (1934), which was an immediate success. (Biblio)