The Beginning Of Spring

New cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgeralds Booker Prizeshortlisted novelshortlisted for the 1988 booker prize Frank Reid had been born and brought upin Moscow. H... » 

New cover reissue of Penelope Fitzgeralds Booker Prizeshortlisted novelshortlisted for the 1988 booker prize Frank Reid had been born and brought upin Moscow. His father had emigrated there in the 1870s and started a printworks which by 1913 had shrunk from what it was when Frank inherited it. Inthat same year to add to his troubles Franks wife Nellie caught the trainback home to England without explanation. How is a reasonable man like Frankto cope? How should he keep his house running? Should he consult the Anglicanchaplains wife? Should he listen to the Tolstoyan advice of his chief bookkeeper? How do people live together and what happens when sometimes theydont? «