Getting ready for October!
The White Witch by Elizabeth Goudge
“They each had in their natures, as the fruit of adversity, a deep unhurried calm. Time was a flower that unfolded very slowly and kept its best secrets till the end.
‘All is well with you, Froniga?’ he asked anxiously.
‘I never ailed in my life,’ she said.
‘The days are anxious,’ he answered.
She laughed and leaned away from him. ‘Most of my days have been anxious, but I've always been the equal of my days.’
The last daylight and the firelight together illumined her face and looking at her he thought it was the strongest face he had ever seen…”
🌿 Elizabeth Goudge, The White Witch
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I hope you are planning on joining us for a perfect Goudge novel for autumn—The White Witch. Goudge wrote this novel as inspired by a vision she had of a woman walking through the gate at her own Rose Cottage in Oxfordshire. It is a dramatic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the English Civil War. Hope you can join us!
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There is a wonderful print by artist Heather Sleightholm called "Froniga's Garden." (I have a copy of it but don't know how to share the picture here.) She told me that THE WHITE WITCH was one of her favorite books by Goudge.
I am brand new to Goudge. I am looking forward to joining the discussion and book club in October!