{"product_id":"9781911397274","title":"Four French Holidays : Daphne Du Maurier, Stella Gibbons, Rumer Godden, Margery Sharp and their novels inspired by France by Hugh Schofield","description":"Four 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 The Greengage Summer on her recollections of her family's 1923 battlefield-tour manqu? in the Champagne region. Margery Sharp's 1936 holiday in Southern France led to `Still Waters' and The Nutmeg Tree: 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 The Scapegoat 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 The Snow-Woman, in which a similar holiday leads a never-married septuagenarian to experience a renaissance of sorts.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56309220671861,"sku":"9781911397274","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781911397274.jpg?v=1762810899","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781911397274","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}