Author(s): Hartley, L. P.,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 03/04/2000,
Pagination: 240 pages,
Series: FF Classics,
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Published By: Faber & Faber
Book Classification: Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9780571203826
Description: 

There is a delicious irony and humour in this Jamesian story about Eustace and Hilda, an Edwardian brother and sister, with its famous opening scene as nine-year-old Eustace watches an anemone devour a shrimp in a tidepool among the rocks on a Norfolk beach during the summer holidays.

A shadow begins to be cast over the children's innocent conversations and gaucherie, revealing their anxieties about themselves, and the constraints of their cosseted lives, as the outside world - of other children, dancing lessons, adults, illness, funerals, money, excursions in landaus, future schools - impinges in Eustace and Hilda's intimacies and fantasies.