*'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life' Hermione Lee, Observer

The compelling and moving narrative of a young girl caught by the tides of marching armies during the siege of Budapest in 1945.

'Evelyn Waugh called her one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deserves' Carol Shields

'Antonia White's sustained portrayal of Clara's budding into womanhood is a masterpiece' The Boston Globe

'Evelyn Waugh called her one of the very best novelists of the day - a title she still deserves' Carol Shields

Contains the letters between Antonia White - a lapsed Catholic - and a former Jesuit novice. Although Antonia White returned to Church, these letters record the conflicts which preceded and followed this reconversion. They also chart the unfolding of an intimate relationship between them.

Antonia White's autobiography of her early years

With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness, sanity and madness, belief and the loss of faith. First published in 1954, STRANGERS is here extended to include her autobiographical story, 'Surprise Visit'; together they present some of Antonia White's .

Throughout her life, Antonia White was devoted to her cats- as she wrote the famous Frost in May Quartet, they were her constant (and disruptive) companions. In the delightful MINKA AND CURDY she fictionalised her experiences.