When her husband, an Indian Civil Servant, dies on his way to take up a new and important post, Christine Cornwell is left with a son and daughter, and a small pension on which to support them. She is a woman of unusual toughness and resilience, and she adapts herself quickly to the difficulties of her new life as a widow in England in the mid 1930s; to the war; and, finally, to the mutilation of her son, a bomber pilot. But her resources begin to fail her when, after the war, she feels herself cast aside and isolated. One ...
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When her husband, an Indian Civil Servant, dies on his way to take up a new and important post, Christine Cornwell is left with a son and daughter, and a small pension on which to support them. She is a woman of unusual toughness and resilience, and she adapts herself quickly to the difficulties of her new life as a widow in England in the mid 1930s; to the war; and, finally, to the mutilation of her son, a bomber pilot. But her resources begin to fail her when, after the war, she feels herself cast aside and isolated. One of the new poor and no longer young, she is wanted less and less by the world in general and her children in particular. With this new and dramatic challenge it is harder to come to terms than with all those that have gone before it; but as Francis King presents her, with a wonderful mixtures of shrewdness and compassion, Christine still has depths of character which, in the end, lead her to a solution. First published in 1957 and set off by a host of minor characters drawn with Francis King's remarkable certainty of touch, the reviewer in The Times thought The Widow 'more accomplished than anything he had written', confirming the author's own view that it was his finest novel.
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Add this copy of The Widow to cart. $14.94, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1991 by Allison & Busby.
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Good. 1961. Paperback. Clean copy showing some age and shelf wear. Minor water staining to page edges. Remains a good copy.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of The Widow to cart. $33.86, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1991 by Allison & Busby.
Add this copy of The Widow to cart. $73.64, good condition, Sold by Bookcase rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Carlisle, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1957 by Longmans, Green & Co.
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Good Plus in Good jacket. 12mo. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight though with a slight lean. Boards tidy. Tanning to hard edges. Moderate shelf wear to dust jacket. Spine faded. Back cover tanned. Foxing to front/back pastedowns.
Add this copy of The Widow to cart. $82.54, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Bello.
Add this copy of The Widow to cart. $108.97, very good condition, Sold by Rooke Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1957 by Longmans, Green, and Co.
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None. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. The first edition of this uncommon novel by Francis King, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition. Â Uncommon. Â In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. This work was written by British novelist and chief book reviewer for the Sunday Telegraph, Francis King. The work tells the story of a widow and mother to two children as she learns to navigate a world that leaves her feeling isolated and unwanted. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with only light offsetting to the rear endpapers. The wrap is very smart with sunning to the spine, handling marks to the rear and very small closed tears and chips to the head of the wrap. Offsetting, marks and light spotting to the verso. Internally firmly bound with very lightly age toned and generally clean pages with the odd spot to the fore edge. Near Fine.
