The Chestnut Tree Free Download Epud By Charlotte Bingham
| Title | : | The Chestnut Tree |
| Author | : | Charlotte Bingham |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Page | : | 464 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0553812777 |
It is the summer of 1939, and like the rest of Europe, the residents of the little idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval war hero, her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore Stewart, seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Corrie Hogarth, the tomboy daughter of the owner of th It is the summer of 1939, and like the rest of Europe, the residents of the little idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval war hero, her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore Stewart, seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Corrie Hogarth, the tomboy daughter of the owner of the local boatyard, are all in their very individual ways determined to play an active part in the defence of their country Knitting socks and bomb dodging is not what they have in mind for themselves while their husbands and brothers, fathers and lovers are away fighting.But attitudes to women s roles in a warring world are difficult to change, and at first all four find it impossible to settle for the traditional kind of work that their families envisage However, it is not just the young women of Bexham who are determined to find new roles for themselves so are their mothers In this manner the little Sussex village, facing as it does the coastline of Nazi invaded France, finds its closely sewn social fabric gradually unstitch, inch by little inch.Under the tree on the green the women of Bexham meet to look back on a landscape that has changed irrevocably, and which they have in their own ways helped to alter None of them are the same, and yet, with the men returning from war, they are expected to slip back into their simple roles of mother, daughter, grandmother This, than anything perhaps, is their greatest sacrifice Having been freed by war, they have now to relinquish that very independence that gave them the liberty for which they once fought.Only the chestnut tree planted by Corrie at the edge of the village flourishes in the accepted manner, finally becoming the uniting symbol of all that has passed forever
about Author
The Honourable Charlotte Mary Th r se Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5 Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, n e Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our The Honourable Charlotte Mary Th r se Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5 Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, n e Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our Lady s Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath After she left school, she went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Death s Ticket She wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was 19, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at the Ritz He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography In 1963, this was published by Heinemanns and was a best seller.In 1966, Charlotte Bingham s first novel, called Lucinda, was published This was later adapted into a TV screenplay In 1972, Coronet Among the Grass, her second autobiography, was published This talked about the first ten years of her marriage to fellow writer Terence Brady They couple, who have two children, later adapted Coronet Among the Grass and Coronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcom No, Honestly She and her husband, Terence Brady, wrote three early episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs together, Board Wages, I Dies from Love and Out of the Everywhere They later wrote an accompanying book called Rose s Story They also wrote the episodes of Take Three Girls featuring Victoria Liza Goddard In the 1970s Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today, Three Comedies of Marriage, Yes, Honestly and Robin s Nest During the 1980s and 1990s they continued to write for the occasional TV series, and in 1993 adapted Jilly Cooper s novel Riders for the small screen Since the 1980s she has become a romance novelist In 1996 she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists Association 
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It is the summer of 1939, and like the rest of Europe, the residents of the little idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war Beautif
464 pagesCharlotte Bingham
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