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Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in Northumbria. While Sofia forces herself to confront her father’s diaries, Kate must face half-remembered shadows from her childhood. Together they make an impulsive journey to Hungary, Sofia's homeland. It is a journey from which neither can return unaltered. Their meeting in Hungary with István Rudnay, also marked by the dark experiences of his youth, leads them to a discovery of the warmth and love so lacking in their own lives, whilst he in turn comes to a reconciliation with the past and hope for the future. Sharply observed and recounted with tenderness and wisdom, <i>The Travellers</i> delineates the intense joys and sorrows of individual lives upon a broad canvas of recent European history. ‘I very much admired the pace of the story, the changes of place and time and the echoes and repetitions – things lost and found and meetings and partings.’ Penelope Fitzgerald
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The Travellers, Ann Swinfen
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- Released
- 1997
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- Title
- The Travellers
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Ann Swinfen
- Publisher
- Arrow Books
- Released
- 1997
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 336
- ISBN10
- 0099684012
- ISBN13
- 9780099684015
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- Sofia Niklai, a reclusive exile, and Kate Milburn, locked in a stifling marriage, form a tentative friendship on a windswept beach in Northumbria. While Sofia forces herself to confront her father’s diaries, Kate must face half-remembered shadows from her childhood. Together they make an impulsive journey to Hungary, Sofia's homeland. It is a journey from which neither can return unaltered. Their meeting in Hungary with István Rudnay, also marked by the dark experiences of his youth, leads them to a discovery of the warmth and love so lacking in their own lives, whilst he in turn comes to a reconciliation with the past and hope for the future. Sharply observed and recounted with tenderness and wisdom, <i>The Travellers</i> delineates the intense joys and sorrows of individual lives upon a broad canvas of recent European history. ‘I very much admired the pace of the story, the changes of place and time and the echoes and repetitions – things lost and found and meetings and partings.’ Penelope Fitzgerald