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Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an extensive vocabulary of French foul language and encounters the privileged lifestyle of the elegant, middle-class British families holidaying in 1920s France.

Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilised and, above all, caring people Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love with not one but three young men.

Over the next forty years Flora will grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, consummate and finally resolve each of these affairs.



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Made me both laugh out loud and cry * The Times *
She writes with the knowledge and wisdom of serene old age and the emotional exuberance of glowing young womanhood * Daily Telegraph *
I loved every word of it * Guardian *
A splendid novel * Evening Standard *

A Sensible Life

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 6 January 2006
      ISBN-13 9780099499138
      978-0099499138
      ISBN-10 0099499134
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the streets of a small French town whilst her parents prepare to depart for life in colonial India. There she befriends the locals, acquires an extensive vocabulary of French foul language and encounters the privileged lifestyle of the elegant, middle-class British families holidaying in 1920s France.

      Introduced for the first time to kindly, civilised and, above all, caring people Flora falls helplessly and hopelessly in love with not one but three young men.

      Over the next forty years Flora will grow from an awkward schoolgirl into a stunning beauty and explore, consummate and finally resolve each of these affairs.



      Trade Review
      Made me both laugh out loud and cry * The Times *
      She writes with the knowledge and wisdom of serene old age and the emotional exuberance of glowing young womanhood * Daily Telegraph *
      I loved every word of it * Guardian *
      A splendid novel * Evening Standard *

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