A favourite of the gods

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A favourite of the gods

Sybille Bedford

(Penguin classics)

Penguin, 2000

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Originally published: London : Collins, 1963

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One autumn in the late 1920s, a beautiful woman called Constanza boards a train on the Italian riviera, en route to Brussels and a new marriage. With her is her young daughter Flavia, who is going to England for the education she has always wanted. An odd, almost meaningless incident interrupts their journey, and Constanza makes a seemingly abrupt and casual decision that changes the course of both their lives. Yet perhaps a pattern had already been set by Constanza's mother, the American heiress Anna, who years before had left home for a strange marriage with an Italian prince...

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  • NCID
    BA46873680
  • ISBN
    • 0141181982
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 11-311 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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