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 manque 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.
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