The Land of Green Ginger

by Winifred Holtby

Book Overview

Joanna Burton was born in South Africa but sent by her missionary father to be raised in Yorkshire. There she dreams of the far-off lands she will visit and adventures to come. At eighteen, tall and flaxen-haired, she meets Teddy Leigh, a young man on his way to the trenches of the First World War.

Joanna has been in love before - with Sir Walter Raleigh, with the Scarlet Pimpernel, with Coriolanus - but this is different. Teddy tells her...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844087921
• ISBN13: 9781844087921
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Virago Press (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.1" x 8.0"