Author: JOEL, MAGGIE
Title: Half the World in Winter
Description: Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin, 2016. Paperback. ISBN: 176029036X. 426 pages; Soft cover has black spine with white lettering. A captivating drama of family secrets and tragedies. It is London, 1880, and Lucas Jarmyn struggles to make sense of the death of his beloved youngest daughter; his wife, Aurora, seeks solace in rigid social routines; and eighteen-year-old Dinah looks for fulfilment in unusual places. Only the housekeeper, the estimable Mrs Logan, seems able to carry on. A train accident in a provincial town on the railway Lucas owns claims the life of nine-year-old Alice Brinklow and, amid the public outcry, Alice's father, Thomas, journeys to London demanding justice. As he arrives in the Capital on a frozen January morning his fate, and that of the entire Jarmyn family, will hinge on such strange things as an ill-fated visit to a spiritualist, an errant chicken bone and a single vote cast at a board room meeting. Written with charm, humour and rich period detail, Maggie Joel has created an intriguing novel of a Victorian family adrift in their rapidly changing world.. New .

Keywords: 176029036x Historical Fiction; 19th Century England; Victorian Age; London; Transportation History; Cultural History; Social History; Gender Roles; Novel; Historical Fiction Women/Womens' History Cultural History European History Geography English/British