Aug 26, 2010

** Foreign Fruit **

Title: Foreign Fruit
Author: Jojo Moyes
Condition: Preloved, Excellent
MYR 20

Mirham is a well-ordered 1950s seaside town: the kind of town in which everyone knows their place (and those who don't are promptly put in it). Lottie Swift, an evacuee who has grown up with the respectable Holden family loves Mirham, while the Holdens' daughter Celia chafes against the constraints of the town.


When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a stark Art Deco house on the seafront, the girls are as drawn to its temptations as Merham's citizens are appalled by them. They set in place a chain of events which will have longstanding and tragic consequences for all concerned.


Now, almost fifty years on, Arcadia is returning to life, and its inhabitants stirring up strong feelings again. And prompting more than one person to look into their own history and ask: can you ever leave your past behind?