by Victoria Clayton · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266138260
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«La chaleur des moissons» is the romantic novel by Victoria Clayton, published by Pocket in paperback (786 pages, in French).
In the spring of 1977, Freddie Swann, a young portraitist of London high society, leaves her wealthy fiancé Alex days before the wedding. She takes refuge in a Dorset cottage inherited from her childhood friend Viola. Far from the control of her mother-in-law and Alex, Freddie makes new friends, awakens affections, and brings well-kept secrets of her circle to light.
The novel's original title is «Running Wild»; the work was first published in 2000 and this French Pocket edition appeared in 2005.
A read for those who enjoy romantic novels with a rural setting, oppressive family relationships, and secrets from the past.
Victoria Clayton, née Walker, is a British author. She began writing at her parents' house in Cambridgeshire. When dining one night in London she sat next to Bill McCreadle of publisher Rupert Hart-Davis who agreed to look at her manuscript, and in 1969, when she was just 21, he decided to publish what became The Winter of Enchantment. Its sequel, The House Called Hadlows, was published in 1972. The books concern a boy called Sebastian who enters another world through a magic mirror. He meets a girl called Melissa who has been imprisoned by an evil Enchanter and resolves to rescue her. In the second book Sebastian and Melissa release a house from a curse made by the Evil One.
