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The Sugar House (Clara Batchelor #2)
The year is 1920. Clara Batchelor is an actress touring with a repertory company. Now of age, she has forgotten the benevolent tyranny with which her Catholic parents treated her relationship with actor Stephen Tye. Yet when Stephen betrays her, Clara marries Archie, the fiancé she discarded four years earlier. A friendship but not a love match, this marriage proves a desp...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
August 1st 2006
by Virago UK
(first published 1952)
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i had an incredibly hard time rating this book. while it had it's lines, i couldn't help but sometimes feel it was too dated—or simply a waste of time to have read (yet short enough to have read quite easily). also, the particular way she used catholicism to drive the plot (which i know is extremely autobiographical) was tiring to me.
This was an intense read, and not as charming as The Lost Traveller, but I really enjoyed it thoroughly. Looking forward to the next one!
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Wonderfully sad story-I loved it. I want to see what is going to happen to Clara in the next book!
See review for Beyond the Glass!
This was the most harshly reviewed of all White's books by contemporary critics. However, its portrayal of despair and impending madness is as poignant as her other more highly praised book, Beyond the Glass.
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Antonia White was born as Eirine Botting to parents Cecil and Christine Botting in 1899. She later took her mother's maiden name, White.
In 1921 she was married to the first of her three husbands. The marriage was annulled only 2 years later, and reportedly was never consummated. She immediately fell in love again with a man named Robert, who was an officer in the Scots Guards. They never married,...more
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In 1921 she was married to the first of her three husbands. The marriage was annulled only 2 years later, and reportedly was never consummated. She immediately fell in love again with a man named Robert, who was an officer in the Scots Guards. They never married,...more
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