{"product_id":"beneath-the-visiting-moon-9781913054250","title":"Beneath the Visiting Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTom came running up, pulling at his socks, so that there seemed something hiccuping, drunken, in his progress.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"We have been cleaning up,\" he said cheerfully.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMrs. Oxford winced. These poor children in their menial roles--And here came Sarah, with a smut on her cheek.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft in genteel poverty by the death of their father, the Fontayne siblings--Sarah, Philly, Christopher, and Tom--are shaken when their mother, loving but dizzy, takes a liking to Julian, a widowed neighbour with two children of his own. Sarah becomes infatuated with a thirty-something diplomat. Philly endures being painted by a dull local artist. Julian's daughter Bronwen, a child prodigy who has already published a book, deals with the pressures of a literary life. And, in the end, a valiant attempt is made to revive the decaying, long-neglected ballroom of the family home for Sarah's 18th birthday party. All against a backdrop of the ominous approach of World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvoking Diana Tutton's \u003cem\u003eGuard Your Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e and Dodie Smith's \u003cem\u003eI Capture the Castle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Visiting Moon\u003c\/em\u003e is both a glittering, funny tale of romance and family life and a brilliant, haunting story of youthful hopes and heartbreaks in a world on the brink of devastating change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'First-rate comedy. What a delightful little world it is that Miss Cavan has created and how truly representative of the time' \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dean Street Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781913054250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.71lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.74d","brand":"Romilly Cavan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36670520524956,"sku":"9781913054250","price":14.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_74833d86-ddc4-4be8-8077-adb9bce7a89c.jpg?v=1603922887","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/beneath-the-visiting-moon-9781913054250","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}