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Privileged Children
About this book
Privileged Children, first published in 1982, was the brilliant debut fiction by the prodigiously gifted Frances Vernon (1963-1991), which earned her the Author's Club Award for Best First Novel.
When Diana Molloy dies in 1912 she leaves a curious inheritance to her 14-year-old daughter Alice - her collection of books, and a lasting attachment to her mother's bohemian friends. The self-possessed young Alice is dismayed, therefore, to be packed off to live with a rural clergyman uncle. But it's not long before she contrives an escape back to her beloved Bloomsbury, and the opportunity to forge her own way in the world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface to the 2014 Edition
- Part 1: Red Lion Square, 1906–1912
- Part 2: Melton Balbridge, 1912–1913
- Part 3: Bramham Gardens, 1914–1924
- Part 4: Bramham Gardens, 1924–1931
- Epilogue
- Copyright