Gordon Home

This Ed. published with variant t.p.s, either by Seely or both Seely and Macmillan.

The growth of France is traced through a succession of royal dynasties and republics. On this tapestry is woven the story of the French people, how they thought, worked, voted, and prayed, and of their allegiance to an ideal - the great republic of humanity at large.

Two family sabbaticals across the Atlantic and a brilliant orchestra conductor shape the perspectives of a young woman from 1950s Harvard Square, who develops new ways of thinking about music, love, and art while struggling with feelings of being a perpetual outsider.

A well-illustrated book about an area of Britain that has changed little since the book's publication.