Beyond the Glass

by Antonia White, Kim Bretton (Read by)

Overview

Clara Batchelor is twenty-two. Her brief, doomed marriage to Archie ended, she returns to her parents hoping for comfort. But theirs is a strict Catholic home, and its confines form a dangerous glass wall of guilt and repression between Clara and the outside world. Clara both longs for and fears what lies beyond, yet when she escapes into an exhilarating and passionate love affair, her fragile identity cracks. An extraordinary portrayal of a woman's descent into madness, this novel completes Antonia White's brilliant May Quartet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798874847579
Publisher:	Tantor
Publication date:	07/16/2024
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Kim Bretton is an Audie Award nominee, a Broadway World Award winner, and was voted Best Actress in Nashville by the Nashville Scene. She has narrated over 100 audiobooks to date. Prior to moving from London to NYC in 2005, Kim worked predominantly on the London stage both originating roles in West End productions and playing in long-running shows both in London and on national and international tours. She has played in numerous Shakespeare and classical works as well as musical theater and modern plays. Her TV and film credits include Call Red for ITV, Don't Look Back for New Forest Films, the lead role in the 1990s TV series Mentors, and an obscene amount of radio and voice-overs. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee, ten years ago and continues to do theater roles in between writing, directing, and voice-over work.

Editorial Reviews

An extraordinarily perceptive and yet detached account of the descent into madness—GOOD HOUSEKEEPING

Last in the Frost in May series, this delicate but powerful novel traces the descent of Clara Batchelor into madness . . . In many ways this is the most impressive of the series, with its bewilderingly honest portrayal of the breakdown of a woman and an artist. Clara's story is partly drawn from White's own collapse, her relationship with Catholicism and the influence of her adored but repressive father—GUARDIAN

Antonia White's true brilliance as a writer emerges—NEW STATESMAN

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