Frontier Passage

by Ann Bridge

There is no subject on which outsiders are more ready to pass moral judgements than the Spanish Civil War; and no subject on which the judgement of outsiders is liable to be at once so categorical, so ill-founded, and so harmful.Bridge says of this piece ""For my part, in writing this book, I have been determined to leave it to the Spaniards themselves, and to history, to appraise the true meaning of these tragic years, while attuning my heart and mind to the indestructible significance and nobility of the Spanish attitude to life - and death." "

Genres: Spain

324 pages, Hardcover

First published September 14, 2012

About the author

Mid twentieth-century novelist [real name, Mary Anne O'Malley] who began by exploiting the milieu of the British Foreign Office community in Peking, China, where she lived for two years with her diplomat husband. Her novels combine courtship plots with vividly-realised settings and demure social satire.

She went on to write novels which take as the background of their protagonists' emotional lives a serious investigation of modern historical developments (such as the leap by which Turkey progressed from a feudal-style government to become a modern republic in which women enjoyed equality of rights and equality of opportunity).

Ann Bridge also wrote thrillers centred on a female amateur detective, travel books, and family memoirs.

Reviews

[Linda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not at all like any of her other books that I have read, but I still enjoyed it very much.