A Place in the Country (novel)

A Place in the Country is a 1969 novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham.Gainham p.624 It was the second in her Vienna trilogy following on from the popular first novel Night Falls on the City.Barton p.171Husband & Husband p.297

Synopsis The novel follows Julia Homburg, once a celebrated actress and now sheltering in the countryside having survived the devastation of the Second World War. She encounters a British Army officer Robert Inglis serving in Vienna with the Allied Occupation Forces. Meanwhile, her old friend the journalist Georg Kerenyi returns half-starved from the East.

References

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