The Chinese garden
Manning, Rosemary1999
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Rosemary Manning's 1962 gem The Chinese Garden is a delicate and finely crafted novel of the discovery -- and betrayal -- of love. In a girls' boarding school in the late 1920s, a world of iron-willed authority, frigid rooms, and forbidden friendships, sixteen-year-old Rachel struggles to find a place for herself. When a rebellious student introduces her to a mystical, secret part of the grounds, the 'Chinese garden', Rachel becomes torn between this hidden world of sensuality and pleasure and the formidable, controlling headmistress who inspires Rachel's intellectual growth.
The Chinese garden / Rosemary Manning.
Manning, Rosemary, author
New York : The Feminist Press, 1999.
189 pages ; 22 cm
9781558612167 (pbk)
English
1188955