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The Greengage Summer Free FREE THE GREENGAGE SUMMER PDF Rumer Godden | 192 pages | 28 Feb 2013 | Pan MacMillan | 9781447211013 | English | London, United Kingdom The Greengage Summer | Rumer Godden Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating The Greengage Summer. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and The Greengage Summer devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marn The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman The Greengage Summer became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year old Joss, the oldest Grey girl, suddenly, achingly beautiful. And the Marne river flowing silent and slow beyond them all They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones Get A Copy. PaperbackThe Greengage Summer. More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Greengage Summerplease sign up. I'm trying to figure out the time period for this book. I've been searching the book for references to items that didn't exist in the earlier era, but everything I've thought of phones, Rolls-Royces, telegrams, Brownie cameras would have been available then. Any thoughts, fellow Greengage fans? Louise Culmer It's the 20s. It is actually loosely based on a The Greengage Summer episode in Rumer Godden's life, you can read about it in her autobiography a Time to dance, No ti …more It's The Greengage Summer 20s. It is actually loosely based on a real episode in Rumer Godden's life, you can read about it in her autobiography a Time to dance, No time to weep. Cecil and Joss are based on Rumer and her older sister Jon. Could someone give me the last sentence in the book? I think my audiobook might be missing a disc. Noa This answer contains spoilers… view spoiler [From the river, into our silence, came the hoot of a passing barge. See 2 questions about The Greengage Summer…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your The Greengage Summer of The Greengage Summer. Their mothe 4. Their mother is bitten on the leg by a horsefly just before the trip and winds up in the hospital; the children end up living largely unsupervised at their hotel for The Greengage Summer few weeks. The Greengage Summer is a coming of age story, The Greengage Summer by 13 year old Cecil a girlthat starts out very languid and slow-paced, but then the tension starts building as they realize something is very off with one of their friends at the hotel, and view spoiler [some horrifying events happen hide spoiler ]. The greengage plums used in the title have an interesting symbolism: they're so sweet, but these phrases and words were typically used in connection with them: "we made ourselves ill from eating the greengages" "as if the first greengage had been an Eden apple, I was suddenly older and wiser" "There were a few, on the trees, overripe in the sun but still firm under the leaves; I ate both kinds and they added to the chaotic feeling in my stomach. The characterization is excellent, subtle and with depth, and sometimes disturbing. Good thing the Kindle has a translation feature! I used it constantly. January group read with the Retro Reads group. Content notes: some adult material, though not explicit, including lots of swearing in French that mostly went over my head because the Kindle translated it into pretty innocuous words. View all 12 comments. Sep 09, Ruby Granger rated it it was amazing. I'm so surprised that this book is not one of the Great Classics. I'd never even heard of it before I picked it up. This is one of my new favourite 20th century novels. The book is narrated by 13 year old Cecil who, with her siblings and mother, goes to France for the summer. However, when her mother gets sick, the children are sent to stay in a hotel with an Englishman called Eliot. They spend halcyon days wondering the French countryside The Greengage Summer villages, and Cecil observes the antics of adulthood I'm so surprised that this book is not one of the Great Classics. They spend halcyon days wondering the French countryside and villages, and Cecil observes the antics of adulthood as the only french linguist. She sits in between adulthood and The Greengage Summer this summer, in a very similar way to Leo in The Go-Between. View 2 comments. Great products, but you feel mislead by the packaging. I can't understand any mother, no matter how ill, choosing to entrust her children to the care of strangers, rather than sending for their admittedly judgemental Uncle William. Joss is the oldest and matters worsen when she also becomes ill. I can understand the hotel proprietor Mademoiselle Zizi feeling this is not her problem, but her lover, the The Greengage Summer Elliot takes pity on these poor waifs - or does he? To say any more would be to spoil the story which we see through 13 year old Cecil's eyes For me the only good thing that happens is the feasting on greengages. I have now found out that they are The Greengage Summer type of very sweet green plum. It reminds me strongly of Bonjour tristesseThe Greengage Summer four years earlier. Also with a The Greengage Summer protagonist, also not a YA book. View all 5 comments. Apr 12, Jeanette rated it it was amazing. Full five stars without need to round up. This 13 year old's Cecil is her name tale of a summer spent at a hotel in France during the 's is magnificent. It has succulent fruit, ripe and golden, and all of it is not in the orchard. It has depth of change, childhood leaving. It has stunning elegance in parts. Cecil's favorite new word elegance. It has the reality of parental absence and the fears of the unknown. It has the entire ambiance of the Large over the Small. It has intrigue and dis Full five stars without need to round up. It has intrigue and disguise. It has raw and exotic competitions on multiple levels. It all floats in an ocean of attractive and over-riding trust. It's as equally filled with fear and mistrustful alienation. All amidst The Greengage Summer supreme prose of a master for this in two languages. It helps very much to understand and be able to read the French, as well as the English. Our 5 Grey children, The Greengage Summer completely individual and different members, still knot tightly. There are events, there are occurrences. All the long days glorious and yet nuance of difference turns tides and jolly outings of freedom to other more mature levels in some instants. And until the last few pages, there are 40 or 50 guesses and just a few straight answers. Little pitchers, big ears. Cecil will know. Lovely, lovely and incredibly realistic and yet heart leaping tale for many of our own memories of the wild summer days of freedom near the ends of our childhoods. This would make a Motion Picture of the Year. This one, the Marne, the Greengage Orchards, the flower fields, that couple at the top of the stairs -meeting them for the first time in their Formal Dining Ensemble. How The Greengage Summer I ever miss this glorious, glorious Rumer Godden? The one with a plot better than Hitchcock's. The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden From Coraline to ParaNorman check out some of our favorite family-friendly movie picks to watch this Halloween. See the full gallery. Title: Loss of Innocence When The Greengage Summer arrives in the The Greengage Summer region of Champagne in the company of her mother, her two sisters, and her brother, sixteen-year-old Joss Grey is still just a teenager. As she returns to England she has become a woman - What has happened is that Mrs. Grey fell ill at the beginning of their stay and was sent to hospital, leaving the foursome in the care of Madame Zizi, manager of the hotel where they are staying. Also lodging there is Madame Zizi's lover Eliot. Unaware of this situation, Joss becomes attracted to the year- old man. Eliot is The Greengage Summer friendly - Eliot is so handsome - A bit enigmatic perhaps, but so charming. Written by Guy Bellinger. I saw this lovely little film shortly after it first appeared. It is a thoroughly charming and winning motion picture about first The Greengage Summer, disillusionment, and acknowledgement, as the young and lovely Susannah York comes of age. She is absolutely winning in one of her first major roles. Kenneth More is superb as the object of York's unrequited affections, and Danielle Darrieux is splendid as More's jealous lover.
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