From the Inside Flap Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty's story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous opponent.Hetty Dorval, Wilson's first novel, is a wise and expertly crafted tale of innocence
- Title : Hetty Dorval
- Author : Ethel Wilson
- Rating : 4.69 (658 Vote)
- Publish : 2016-5-15
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 132 Pages
- Asin : 0771088892
- Language : English
From the Inside Flap Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty's story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous opponent.Hetty Dorval, Wilson's first novel, is a wise and expertly crafted tale of innocence and experience. . Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. As Frankie Burnaby, the young schoolgirl MrsEthel Davis Wilson, born in South Africa, was taken to live with her maternal grandmother in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1898. In the 1930s Wilson published a few short stories and began a series of fictionalized family reminiscences which were later published as The Innocent Traveller in 1949. Her first published novel, Hetty Dorval, appeared in 1947, and was followed by Swamp Angel in 1954, generally thought of as her most accomplished work. The Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize is named in her honour.From the eBook edition.
. Her final book was Mrs Golightly and Other Stories (1961)
Seeking refuge from her mysterious past, the beautiful Mrs. Dorval arrives in a small British Columbia town at the confluence of the Fraser and Thompson Rivers. Dorval befriends, pieces together Hetty’s story, she begins to realize that her enigmatic idol is also a treacherous opponent.Hetty Dorval, Wilson’s first novel, is a wise and expertly crafted tale of innocence and experience.
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