Return to "Sunset House"

by Winifred Fortescue

Lady Fortescue's witty and warm accounts of her life in Provence have always captivated readers. In RETURN TO SUNSET HOUSE, her story is taken up after the Liberation of France. Lady Fortescue learns of the death of her dearest friend Mademoiselle, and resolves to return to Provence and continue the relief work with which Mademoiselle had been involved prior to her illness. In her distinctive and spirited manner, Lady Fortescue brings alive a changed Provence; but like all her other books RETURN TO SUNSET HOUSE is full of life and enthusiasm.

250 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Lady Winifred Fortescue was a writer and actress. She was also the wife of Sir John Fortescue, the Librarian and Archivist at Windsor Castle and British Army historian.

In the 1930s she and her husband moved to Provence, France beginning her book writing career with "Perfume from Provence". She wrote a number of other books whilst there. Her husband died within 2 years of them moving to France but she stayed on until forced to move out by the German invasion in World War II. She returned at the end of the war and died in Opio, Provence.