Celestine

Author: Tindall, Gillian

c 1800 to c 1900

Published on 25 March 1996 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.

When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family's possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette. This is Tindall's brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village.