Nightingale Wood

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El primero de ellos se trata, como no podía ser de otra manera del título que ha supuesto el número 100, y no podía ser otra la elegida que su bandera y una de las artífices de su éxito: Stella Gibbons. El libro en cuestión es “La segunda vida de Viola Wither” y reúne una de esas tramas tan características suyas en la que Viola Wither, la protagonista, se casa con alguien a quien no ama y al enviudar va a vivir con su familia política teniendo a partir de ese momento la posibilidad de conocer a un magnate soltero que se parece a Gatsby y que se caracteriza por su superficialidad. Esta trama le sirve como pretexto para montar todo tipo de situaciones cómicas, con una sátira que siempre se mete con el orden y costumbres imperantes y te lleva en volandas con su prosa elegante sin olvidar momentos entrañables. Nada nuevo a lo que ya nos tenía acostumbrados en sus otras novelas, bien hecho, sin deslumbrar, pero siempre de manera interesante. Es una buena recomendación, sobre todo para el verano. If you are into bird watching, make sure to visit the wood with your binoculars on hand. You never know what you may spot!

I really like this book a lot because of all the morals behind it. ‘The Secret of Nightingale Wood’ is about a twelve year old girl whose family have moved to the countryside after her mother got ill due to her brother’s death. The ‘Hope House’ that they moved into was holding some secrets and mystery. One of the sweets that Henrietta (the twelve year old girl) discovers is to do with ‘Nightingale Wood’. Henrietta makes many friends along the way; on her mission to cure her mum and also help her magical friends. This has become one of my favourite books because the main character shows a lot of determination when she proves some of the people wrong. I think that, in the future, I will read a lot more books written by this author. Safeguarding the built heritage is also important and the listed buildings in or close to the village include Nightingale Farm, Longleaze Farm, Manor Farmhouse, Red House, Church Farmhouse, Gordon Cottage and, of course, the oldest building in South Marston – the church of St Mary Magdelene. a b Gibbons: "Introduction" in Austen, Jane (1957). Sense and Sensibility. New York: The Heritage Press. Speaking of a waltz at a charity ball, Gibbons says, “It was an exciting melody, slow and dreamy and strong, with the swaying rhythm beating through it like the sea under showers of foam. . . . People glanced at one another and laughed, and waded into the ocean of music as the moonlit bathers had gone out into the silver-green sea . . . and the dancers dreamed that life was beautiful, in a world toppling with monster guns and violent death.” That description drove me straight to YouTube to listen to the melody (the description was better than the tune, sigh). Perhaps because all their flaws and vanities are held up for our laughing scrutiny, they all end up being sympathetic characters, in their way. They're also very familiar characters: we may think we've come a long way but seriously, I think it's fair to say that there are plenty of Viola's, Tina's, Mr Withers, Victor's, Phyllis's and Hetty's around today. Which just emphasises how shrewd Gibbons' eye really was. So we laugh and wince at the same time.I wish I had the time to write a longer review, because there's so much I loved and want to share about Nightingale Wood...but I don't. So I'll just say that I simply loved it. It was funny, wistful, goofy, thoughtful...pretty much everything I want in a book. Well, some fisticuffs would have been nice. There are some, but they mostly occur off-stage. I'll also note that this book is not just about Viola. Hetty and Tina are main characters in their own right, and I enjoyed their stories tremendously, Tina's in particular. Grafham Water SSSI - Loaded with spring delights, including the melodic song of the nightingale and the spring chorus of the garden warbler and nightcap. Also making use of the reservoir includes the common sandpiper, greenshank and the rare red-throated diver. With nine miles of shoreline, and around 170 species of bird recorded each year, there is always something to see.

Publicar lo más valioso de la literatura clásica y moderna es nuestra más firme intención, en ediciones que nos satisfagan a nosotros en tanto lectores exigentes. Obras inspiradas por el ideal de calidad que queremos que sea nuestro inconfundible distintivo como editorial. From the mid-1980s Gibbons experienced recurrent health problems, not helped when she resumed smoking. In her last months she was looked after at home by her grandson and his girlfriend. She died there on 19 December 1989, after collapsing the previous day, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery, alongside her husband. At her funeral, her nephew and future biographer Reggie Oliver read two of her poems, the latter of which, "Fairford Church", concludes with the words: "Little is sure. Life is hard./We love, we suffer and die./But the beauty of the earth is real/And the Spirit is nigh." [81] Writing [ edit ] Style [ edit ] Hammill, Faye (2007). Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-71644-5. Warning: Expect, however, a few bits and pieces of material that will raise modern eyebrows in terms of what we consider racist, anti-Semitic, etc. I don't judge Gibbons too harshly for these, as she was clearly a progressive woman for her time. I imagine she would never have written such things if such prejudices weren't so ingrained into the era in which she lived. I also think it's possible she was satirizing prejudice, but I don't think I can tell for sure.]The medieval moat that sits at its heart lends this wood its name, as well as a fittingly historic feel. The ancient oak woodland here shelters important and locally rare patches of wet alder carr, vibrant green mounds of sphagnum moss and the areas of coppice and open glades nightingales like. And how does he celebrate the nightingale season’s end? “I do love sleeping in a bed. Closing the curtains and having darkness till 9am is such a luxury.” Lee laughs. “It’s so great what we’ve done with houses and windows and double glazing.” Gibbons maintained a wide circle of friends, who in her later years included Adams, the entertainer Barry Humphries and the novelist John Braine. [77] [79] From the mid-1970s she established a pattern of monthly literary tea parties in Oakshott Avenue at which, according to Neville, "she was known to expel guests if they were shrill, dramatic, or wrote tragic novels." [6] As her own productivity dwindled and finally ceased altogether, she kept a commonplace book in which she was recording her thoughts and opinions on literature as late as 1988. [80] Housing has already spread out west, north and south of the town, and now, finally, the New Eastern Villages are forming the next stage of Swindon’s expansion. Where Are They Now". Penguin Books. 2010. Archived from the original on 15 November 2013 . Retrieved 3 November 2013.

The ending was breath-taking and reduced me to tears of joy and bliss, the hardships of Henry paid off. The authors creation of characters that are extremely realistic, aids the reader to have more imagery- you can teleport to their world of ghosts, scars that you can’t see and deadly secrets.It was a very good book I liked the character Henrietta. My favourite part is when she finds something mysterious in the woods .The book wanted me to read more by this Author . I think that the history is real because people can be ill they can work a broad and other things that happened in the story.

I like this book. There was a girl called Henrietta and her mother isn’t well and there is a doctor called Doctor Hardy and he is trying to make the mum even more ill such as giving the mum some sleeping pills to make the mum sleepy so he can take her to a sleeping hospital. It unfolds into a great mystery which is also very spooky and mysterious. The history is hard to place as I haven’t studied this period before but I definitely knew it was set it the past. Gibbons is a new experience for me. this is like the anti-romance novel, for the most part. but not just romance of the boy-girl kind--she writes quite clear-eyed about money and its corrosive effects; about living (or not-quite-living) in a stultifying society; about how small-town life can make a person, well, small. only the natural world gets a pass. There is also a stile leading into the wood from the public footpath on the western side of the wood off the A22. The ending was happy and calm and I wouldn’t change a thing about, it but I wasn’t that happy when we finished because I didn’t want it to end!Such a wonderful introduction for me into the work of Stella Gibbons. I loved the storytelling in this book. Apart from the Cinderella like romance developing in the centre of the story there were many side plots and interesting emotional connections. Gibbons has a talent for describing a scene in the most poetic of terms and then abruptly bringing the reader very sharply down to earth with a comic observation. For Gibbons, the suburb offered an ideal vantage point for exploring both urban modernity and countryside traditionalism, and for observing both literary modernism and the vestigial Romanticism of popular rural fiction." Yes..of course, she was a widow. He had forgotten that. She looked the very image of innocence, she talked like a schoolgirl, but widows were not innocent. However young and simple a widow might seem, you could not get away from the fact that widows, presumably, were not…Well this girl was actually more experienced than old Phyl.” It was written in 1938 and it's a story about people, their social position, manners and relationships. I can’t express my feelings for this book, it is just so good. If you want a good, old fashioned war story, then this is for you. I would like to know if the author, Lucy Strange, has written any more books like this.