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Elizabeth Goudge’s The Bird in the Tree follows the intimate life of the Eliot family at the Hampshire estate of Damerosehay. When David, the family’s favorite grandson, falls in love with a girl deemed unsuitable, Lucilla, his devoted grandmother, struggles to keep her cherished ambitions for the estate in balance with her son’s heart. The novel explores the tension between duty and passion amid the tranquil countryside of wartime England.
First publish date: 1940
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Elizabeth Goudge
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