\'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating\' Louis de Bernieres \'We need the courage to choose ourselves\' W.
Echoing the depths of Possession, the elegance of The Stranger\'s Child and the ingenuity of Longbourn, Larchfield is a beautiful and haunting novel about heroism - the unusual bravery that allows unusual people to go on living; to transcend banality and suffering with the power of their imagination..
The need for human connection compels these two vulnerable outsiders to find each other and make a reality of their own that will save them both.
Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.
Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality.
Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, should be embarking on success and society in London.
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Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once.
As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the realities of small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether.
She is soon shown that she is wrong.
She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means.
Newly married, pregnant, she\'s excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity.
Auden It\'s early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged.
H. \'Mysterious, wondrous, captivating\' Louis de Bernieres \'We need the courage to choose ourselves\' W
