A Room on the Hill (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Garth St. Omer
- First Published: 1968
- Type of Work: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: c. 1950
- Setting: St. Lucia, West Indies
- Principal Characters: John Lestrade, Anne-Marie D’aubain, Stephen, Miriam Dezauzay, Harold Montague, Derek Charles
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Self-discovery, Suicide, Hope, West Indies, Generation gap, Life and death
- Locales: West Indies, St. Lucia, West Indies
The Novel
A Room on the Hill opens a few days after the funeral of John Lestrade’s mother, Lena. It is the second death for John in a relatively short span of time; two years before, his best friend Stephen drowned while he stood helplessly on the beach, unable to muster the courage to attempt a rescue. Since then, John has been punishing himself by abandoning his plans for seven years of study in Canada, and he has rejected his mother’s sympathy so totally that he is now troubled by the idea that this may have contributed to her death.
On his way from the...
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