Dochters van de Dordogne

Dinah Jefferies (author), Erica van Rijsewijk (translator)
Eerste deel in een grandioze nieuwe trilogie van bestsellerauteur Dinah Jefferies.

Frankrijk, 1944. In het dal van de Dordogne, in een oud stenen huisje aan de rand van een lieflijk dorpje, hopen drie zussen op een spoedig einde van de oorlog. Hélène, de oudste, probeert de familie bijeen te houden, zelfs als de nazi’s dichter- en dichterbij komen. Elise, de rebel, is vastberaden: zij g
Title
Dochters van de Dordogne
Author
Dinah Jefferies
Translator
Erica van Rijsewijk
Language
Dutch
Original language
English
Original title
Daughters of war
Publisher
Amsterdam: HarperCollins, 2021
1 digitaal bestand
ISBN
9789402762938

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About Dinah Jefferies

Dinah Mary Jefferies (born 1948) is a British novelist, and a short-story and article writer.

Biography

Dinah Jefferies was born in Malacca, Malaya in 1948 and moved to England in 1956 at age eight after the country became independent. She studied at the Birmingham College of Art and later at the University of Ulster, where she graduated in English literature.

When her son Jamie was fourteen he was killed in an accident at school and the experience went to underpinning the emotional power of her writings including her debut 2013 work The Separation.

Her 2015 novel, The Tea Planter's Wife , was a choice for the Richard and Judy Book Club. and was in the Sunday Times best sellers list for 16 weeks continuously from September until Christmas 2015, topping it twice during that time. Her next novel in 2016 novel, The Silk Merchant's Daughter, also entered the Sunday Times top 10. She has been a best…Read more on Wikipedia