THE HORSES OF THE SUN

by Oriel Malet ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

Lively, sensitive, intelligent nine-year-old Lisa, the result of an alliance between a prim Englishwoman and a talented Italian magician, and Sophie, Countess of Montefiore, a warm-hearted, impulsive much married Frenchwoman, are the heroines of this amusing and tender novel of the young and the young in heart. The Contessa's idyllic summer villa on Elba is the scene of Lisa's greatest happiness and blackest misfortune. Her happiness springs from the beauty of the island, the understanding if capricious kindness of the Contessa, the sympathy of Professor Fabrier (once the Contessa's lover) and the companionship of his teen age son Pascal. The misfortune is caused by a cold and beautiful English girl, niece to the Contessa, girl friend of Pascal, who out of envy and priggishness creates a situation that forces Lisa's mother to leave her position as the Contessa's secretary and return with Lisa to England. The reader's disappointment at this sad turn of events is amply assuaged by an epilogue in which one learns that Lisa grew up to marry Pascal and that the Contessa married the professor. Characters, setting, situation and style all add up to an exceptionally pleasant reading experience.

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Publisher: Putnam

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1959

Categories: FICTION