Unleaving
1976
First Published
3.52
Average Rating
150
Number of Pages
Part of Series
The recent heir to her grandmother's house, a young girl rents it for the summer to a professor and a group of students whose long, abstract, philosophical discussions become meaningful to her as the summer wears on.
Avg Rating
3.52
Number of Ratings
66
5 STARS
24%
4 STARS
27%
3 STARS
29%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
5%
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Author
Jill Paton Walsh
Author · 31 books
Jill Paton Walsh was born Gillian Bliss in London on April 29th, 1937. She was educated at St. Michael's Convent, North Finchley, and at St. Anne's College, Oxford. From 1959 to 1962 she taught English at Enfield Girls' Grammar School. Jill Paton Walsh has won the Book World Festival Award, 1970, for Fireweed; the Whitbread Prize, 1974 (for a Children's novel) for The Emperor's Winding Sheet; The Boston Globe-Horn Book Award 1976 for Unleaving; The Universe Prize, 1984 for A Parcel of Patterns; and the Smarties Grand Prix, 1984, for Gaffer Samson's Luck. Series: * Imogen Quy * Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
