PUblished by the Folio Society, London in 2000. Hardcover. The book is in excellent condition with decorated green boards with gilt spine titles. Dark green slipcase in fine condition. The book includes a monochrome frontispiece, 11 plates and many illustrations by Aafke Brouwer. Foreword by Jane Murray Flutter; introduction by Jane Asher.
A tense, evocative portrait of love and deceit in the Champagne country of the Marne. "They would merge together in a gold-green summer of discovery, until the fruit rotted on the trees and cold seeped into their bones."
The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
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