{"product_id":"9781911397274-four-french-holidays","title":"Four French Holidays","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDaphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France\u003cbr\u003eWhat four 20th c. novelists have made of their respective holidays in France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour popular novelists of the same generation each wrote a novel inspired by a holiday that the author spent in France. In the nineteen-fifties, Rumer Godden based \u003cem\u003eThe Greengage Summer\u003c\/em\u003e on her recollections of her family’s 1923 battlefield-tour manqué in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp’s 1936 holiday in Southern France led to ‘Still Waters’ and \u003cem\u003eThe Nutmeg Tree\u003c\/em\u003e: both the short story and the novel are set in and around the region of Aix-les-Bains. In 1955, Daphne Du Maurier first visited the department of Sarthe to research French family history; the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Scapegoat\u003c\/em\u003e was the immediate result of the holiday. And in 1966, Stella Gibbons’ last trip to the continent took the form of a visit to an old friend in her summer home near Grenoble. The stay is obliquely reflected in \u003cem\u003eThe Snow-Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56160561463670,"sku":"9781911397274","price":33.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29773408.jpg?v=1756270240","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781911397274-four-french-holidays","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}