{"product_id":"9781405984157","title":"Fenny by Lettice Cooper","description":"Rediscover the brilliance of Fenny in the Mermaid Collection – timeless classics by pioneering female authors, beautifully reissued to enchant today’s readers.\u003cp\u003eA richly evocative coming-of-age novel, Fenny follows a young English governess who falls deeply in love with Tuscany in 1933, even as she faces the pain of unrequited love and the shadows of political unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by Jennie Godfrey‘The strange city through which they drove was the scenery of a dream . . .’Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her family will claim her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor as the summer passes, Ellen falls so in love with Italy and her new home that she cannot bear to leave – even when her own hopes of love are cruelly thwarted. Even when the shadow of war falls across the country, she doesn’t flee but clings on – for her friends, for those she loves more than herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEllen – selfless, big-hearted, accepting – cannot know what is coming. Yet, she will not face it alone . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Lettice Cooper:‘A writer of quiet but strong, deep and varied gifts’ Sunday Telegraph  ‘A storyteller of adventures of the heart’ Jilly Cooper\u003c\/p\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback,\u003cbr\u003ePagination: 416 pages","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149023625443,"sku":"9781405984157","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9781405984157.jpg?v=1757344736","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781405984157","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}