The House above the Sea by Elizabeth James

Kate Stephens is fourteen when her mother is killed in a motoring accident. Bereaved and bewildered, she is sent by her father to stay with the bohemian Felix family in their large, rambling house on the North Wales coast. During the course of a magical summer, Kate slowly regains her Joy in life and falls deeply in love with her surrogate family.

Blossoming from an insecure girl into an intelligent, cosmopolitan young woman, Kate remains under the spell of the fascinating Felixes, her dependency leading her to betray both friendship and love. But as the fifties give way to the sweeping cultural changes of the sixties and seventies, Kate must fend for herself, and comes to understand that her idols are merely flesh and blood, that their charm and charisma disguise dangerous, even fatal weaknesses...

Genres: Literary Fiction
Condition: Good
Published: 1999 by HarperCollinsPublishers
Pages: 553
ISBN: 0007664052
Weight: 300g