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  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099529385
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00
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White Sand and Grey Sand




'[Gibbons] has not only charm but something far better, perspicacity' - Elizabeth Bowen, Tatler

On the dunes west of Bruges, two-year-old Ydette is found wrapped in a blanket and taken back to live in a small grocer's shop. Opposite the shop live the wealthy van Roeslaere family and their son, Adriaan, a spoilt boy, plagued by ugliness. With overtones of Beauty and the Beast, their romance matures as they grow up together and learn what should truly be valued in life.

  • Published: 1 August 2012
  • ISBN: 9780099529385
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons is best known for her comic masterpiece Cold Comfort Farm. A witty parody of the pastoral fiction written by authors such as D H Lawrence, Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb, it won the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse Anglais in 1933 and established her literary reputation. Gibbons also wrote 22 other novels, including Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) and Starlight (1967), as well as three volumes of short stories and four poetry collections. She died in 1989, aged 87.

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