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The loving spirit / Daphne Du Maurier with an introduction by Michele Roberts.

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Record Number 835150
ISBN 9781844080939 (paperback)
Author Du Maurier, Daphne, 1907-1989 author.
Title The loving spirit / Daphne Du Maurier with an introduction by Michele Roberts.
Publisher/Date London : Virago, 2004.
©1931
Pagination etc. 404 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents note Originally published: 1931.
Summary Note Cornwall, 1900s. Plyn Boat Yard is a hive of activity, and Janet Coombe longs to share in the excitement of seafaring: to travel, to have adventures, to know freedom. But constrained by the times, instead she marries her cousin Thomas, a boat builder, and settles down to raise a family. Janet's loving spirit - the passionate yearning for adventure and for love - is passed down to her son, and through him to his children's children. As generations of the family struggle against hardship and loss, their intricately plotted history is set against the greater backdrop of war and social change in Britain. Her debut novel, The Loving Spirit established du Maurier's reputation and style with an inimitable blend of romance, history and adventure. This novel eals with four generations of a family of shipbuilders on the Cornish coast. Janet Coombe, who married her cousin, has several children, but between her son Joseph and herself, there exists a bond of love and sympathy.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Shipbuilding -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
Intergenerational relations -- Fiction
Romance fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Added Author Roberts, Michèle writer of introduction.
Shelf Location F DUMA
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