Between Worlds Sandra Billington Hardcover - 272 pages (February 2005) Book Guild Ltd; ISBN: 185776854X

Daring, searing exploration of the break-up of a homosexual relationship
In this, her first novel, acclaimed academic author Sandra Billington has written of the tragedy that unfolds within an artistic community in 1960s France and the triumphs and catastrophes that are brought about by the emotions thus released. The author s love of France is manifest in her beautiful evocations of the country and telling delineation of its people.
Bertrand and Jean-Clavxde seem to kave the perfect relationship — two artists living together in the rural idyll that is Chateau Ivrez. Suddenly the settled harmony of their relationship is thrown into fierce discord by the arrival of Amy. Not only is she a foreigner — but she is a woman.
Billington's optimistic and sometimes naive characters are searching for self-fulfilment, for artistic achievement, and for emotional security — not so very different from the needs and aspirations of many in our more cynical world. Set in France during the vibrant and challenging sixties, where social and artistic barriers were everywhere being broken down, Between Worlds exhibits not only a powerful narrative twist but a distinctly telling evocation of a country and a society for which the author has a deep affection.
A powerful novel about human relationships and the often hard and dangerous road to artistic and sexual maturity.
Sandra Billington gained a scholarship to RADA in 1965 and worked at the Royal Court Theatre and with Mike Leigh. She went on to read English at Cambridge in 1972, and wrote two short plays - Duet and Builders - which won the University's Quiller Couch Prize for original writing. She remained in Cambridge till 1979 to complete a Ph.D on the Fool in Renaissance Drama. A Lectureship in Renaissance Theatre at the University of Glasgow followed. Published work includes A Social History of The Fool (1984) which won the Katherine Briggs Prize for Folklore; Mock Kings in Medieval Society and Renaissance Drama (1991), winner of the Michaelis Jena Ratcliff Prize for Folklore, and-Midsummer; a cultural sub-text from Chretien de Troyes to Jean Michel (2000).

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