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The Voice from the Garden - Pamela Hambro and the Tale of Two Families Before and After the Great War (Hardcover)
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The Voice from the Garden - Pamela Hambro and the Tale of Two Families Before and After the Great War (Hardcover)
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In 1900 few people could have imagined that their world would
change so drastically in such a short time. The shell-shocked
society that emerged from the Great War was at once less unequal
and more demanding, more hopeful and yet less certain, than the
old. The Voice from the Garden opens a window onto these two worlds
through Pamela and her families. The daughter of a doomed union
between trade and title, Pamela was born into the Cobbold brewing
family of Suffolk and married into the famous merchant banking
dynasty, the Hambros. Wealthy the families may have been, but money
is no protection against the loss caused by war or the frailties of
human nature. From an extraordinary period of social and economic
change, here are fascinating characters, mystery, adultery, despair
and hope. It is a unique tale, at the heart of which lies the love
story of Pamela and Charles. Long-listed for the 2013 New Angle
Prize for Literature (www.ipswichinstitute.org.uk/NAP.html). The
New Angle Prize for Literature is awarded biennially for a recently
published work of literary merit associated with or inspired by
East Anglia. The judges described the book as "A meticulous and
captivating reconstruction of the life of Pamela Hambro - of the
East Anglian Cobbold family - and the impact of the First World War
on her life. At the story's heart lies her enduring love for her
husband Charles, of the Hambro banking dynasty."
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