Beyond the Glass

Name: Beyond the Glass
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Antonia White
ISBN: 9798350847963

Author: Antonia White

Series: Clara Batchelor Trilogy #3

Narrator: Kim Bretton

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/16/2024

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Coming Of Age, Women

Synopsis

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie over, she returns to live with her parents in the home of her childhood. She hopes for comfort but the devoutly Catholic household confines her and forms a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, and when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair her fragile identity cracks.

Beyond the Glass completes the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and The Sugar House. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

About Antonia White

Antonia White (1899-1980) was educated at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton before going to St Paul's School for Girls and training for the stage at RADA. From 1924 until the Second World War she worked as a journalist. Among numerous volumes of short stories, fiction and autobiography, Antonia White published a celebrated quartet of novels linked by their heroine: Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, The Sugar House, and Beyond the Glass.

Reviews

Goodreads review by JimZ on September 20, 2022

The way this book started out, well actually for about half of it ... I was sort of bored. The book was divided into four parts. At the end of the second part, I wrote on my piece of paper where I take notes ‘stupid’. But then two pages later at the beginning of Part Three I made a note next to that......more

Goodreads review by Ali on June 14, 2014

beyondtheglass Beyond the Glass is the final novel in Antonia White’s series of novels which explore the schooldays, girlhood and early married life of Clara Batchelor, the daughter of a Catholic convert. I have loved these books and had been looking forward for some time to this instalment. It didn’......more

Goodreads review by Zen on July 04, 2009

When I read The Lost Traveller I wasn't sure if it was actually a good book, or just a good bad book (i.e. a book I found it very easy to be interested in and enjoy reading). I think this, and The Sugar House (which I read together), are good books, though. Antonia White apparently thought The Sugar......more

Goodreads review by Meg on July 29, 2017

This is not a book one 'enjoys', given that a good part of it is taken up by the central character's descent into madness. But I found it interesting. The descriptions of Bethlem are also interesting, and make me glad that care of the mentally ill has improved beyond recognition since those times -......more