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White Sand and Grey Sand

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529385

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £12.99

White Sand and Grey Sand

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099529385

  • Length: 320  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 292g

  • RRP: £12.99

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  • "[Gibbons] has not only charm but something far better, perspicacity"

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About the Author

Stella Gibbons

Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902. She went to the North London Collegiate School and studied journalism at University College, London. She then worked for ten years on various papers, including the Evening Standard. Stella Gibbons is the author of twenty-five novels, three volumes of short stories, and four volumes of poetry. Her first publication was a book of poems, The Mountain Beast (1930) and her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heuruse Prize for 1933. Among her works are Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm (1940) Westwood (1946), Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1959) and Starlight (1967). She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1950. In 1933 she married the actor and singer Allan Webb. They had one daughter. Stella Gibbons died in 1989.

Stella Gibbons

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