A review by andrew61
The Beginning of Spring, by Penelope Fitzgerald
4.0
Set in 1913 we find Frank Reid, an English man whose family have built up a printing business in Moscow. One day he returns home to find his wife having run away with his 3 children to return to England but within hours the children return back without their mother.
What follows is a curious story about their life of a period of weeks in which both the changing season also presages tumultuous changes that are developing in the country.
This is a gentle tale which also includes humour and wonderful character studies. The prose is also vivid with descriptions of landscape which evoke the beauty of a mysterious country.
A brilliant storyteller.
What follows is a curious story about their life of a period of weeks in which both the changing season also presages tumultuous changes that are developing in the country.
This is a gentle tale which also includes humour and wonderful character studies. The prose is also vivid with descriptions of landscape which evoke the beauty of a mysterious country.
A brilliant storyteller.