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Summary: The perfect novel
Review: ...perfectly balanced, perfectly plotted, and perfectly wonderful.I wish I had written this book. I wish I *could* have written this book. Tryst is the story of a love that death could not destroy, and is my favorite romance book ever. Sabrina and Hilary transcend time, and their love will widen the range of your heart.
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Summary: WHAT IS IT ABOUT THIS BOOK?!
Review: As someone who has read every Williamsburg Novel at least 7 or 8 times and who knows the characters like family, I was sort of dissapointed in this book. It is just very weird, and also a mix of "Ever After" and "Homing." Again, not the best Thane I've every read.
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Summary: This is one of my favorite books of all time!
Review: I frist read this book 26 years ago, and have returned to it time and time again. Mrs. Thane wrote a beautiful, gentle love story that transcends time. "Tryst" warms the heart and soul, and makes one believe in love all over again. A definite "must read" for everyone over the age of 12! How about a movie, Hollywood?
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Summary: Remembered for twenty years
Review: I read this book when I was in high school, remembered it deeply, clearly, and have hunted for a copy of it for nearly two decades. It's a very sweet love story, with all the undercurrents and tensions of complex human lives. I agree with the reviewer that said that the situation of the out-of-sync lovers is both memorable and so deftly resolved. I loved this book enough to search it out after decades of remembering it.
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Summary: A very wonderful and romantic story!
Review: I really enjoyed this novel. It is so romantic. It's
about a ghost named Hilary who falls in love with a
girl who moves into his house. I'd give it ten stars if I
could.
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Summary: Tryst
Review: I remembered this book from my teenage years, and it has "haunted" me ever since. It is a love story which explains the inevitability of union when two souls are aligned. Brought to a quiet English country house by her professor father and maided aunt, our shy, bookish heroine is quite content to be tucked away in the hinterlands. She has no suspicion that her life will be forever changed, or rational explaination for why she is so irresistibly drawn to the locked room at the top of the stairs. On the other hand, our hero only knows that he must follow his unreasoning desire to get home, and is all the more determined to do so after the drama and strain in the Asian desert, his most recent completion of what the high commissioner always called the "almost impossible." Death, someone explained, only ends a life; it does not end a relationship. In "Tryst," it begins one.
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Summary: My Favorite book of all time
Review: I was introduced to TRYST in 1967 when I was a high school senior. I have read TRYST again every year and still love it dearly. I was fortunate enough, in the late 70s, to write a number of letters to Elswyth Thane Beebe and get replies! I think she would be very touched to find out how timeless her books still are. When I visited England for the first time in 1981, the first morning I was there, I walked to Cleopatra's Needle. A few days later, I went on a guided train tour to Glastonbury and Wells -- we ate lunch at the Swan! That night when I went to bed, I cried because it was all so beautiful to me, and it still is. God bless Elswyth Thane for this extraordinary timeless book!
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Summary: Sabrina and Hilary's Delightfully Fantastic Adventure
Review: If movies like the "The Ghost and Mrs Muir" send a sentimental chill up your spine, prepare yourself for a treat---"Tryst", originally published in 1939, contains the same thrill of the supernatural bound by romantic love.
Lovely 17-year old Sabrina lives in the rented country estate, Nuns Farthing, with the rest of her dysfunctional family---her bitter father, Alan, and her fusty spinster aunt, Effie. From the moment the door of the room at the top of the stairs is opened for her by sympathetic and sensitive housekeeper, Mrs Pilton, imaginative and lonely Sabrina conjurs up an entire history revolving around the room's previous inhabitant, Hilary Shenstone. The Shenstones own Nuns Farthing and the youngest son, Hilary is off in India carrying on in his father's dangerous tradition of intrepid Englishman working for the Home Office. As Sabrina thumbs through Hilary's library at home, we glimpse a bit of the adventure of Hilary's life as his plane goes down miles away from Nuns Farthing. Instantaneously, thoughts of his childhood mysteriously and irrationally capture his mind, and Hilary finds this inexplicable longing compells him to make the long journey home. After much soul-seeking and understanding, Hilary reconciles with his old life and moves towards his new one back at the home of his childhood. When he arrives, Mrs. Pilton recognizes him on sight and sends him with her blessings up to his old room where she knows Sabrina innocently awaits. And as Hilary first lays eyes on the lovely fresh-faced girl, he realizes why he was driven to make this homecoming---this is the girl he is destined for, the ONE he has been waiting for up until now to make his wife. Sabrina already half in love with him from her own imaginings, cannot help but fall for him, head over heels. Magical halycon days lie ahead for a couple star crossed in their love for one another . . .except for one slight detail . . . Hilary died in the plane in India.
Sound intriguing? It is. Written in a sweet yet unsentimental way that is perfect for all age groups, the story moves along swiftly, keeping the reader wondering 'what is to become of the two lovers?' living on different planes. The likeable characters epitomize the era between the World Wars; the politeness and sensibilities portrayed enhance Sabina's wistful frustrations and emphasize Hilary's desperate need to make this one last connection work.
This bittersweet love story is recommended to all who love spending a rainy afternoon watching romantic black&white films while fantasizing about that perfect lover.
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Summary: Sabrina and Hilary's Delightfully Fantastic Adventure
Review: If movies like the "The Ghost and Mrs Muir" send a sentimental chill up your spine, prepare yourself for a treat---"Tryst", originally published in 1939, contains the same thrill of the supernatural bound by romantic love.
Lovely 17-year old Sabrina lives in the rented country estate, Nuns Farthing, with the rest of her dysfunctional family---her bitter father, Alan, and her fusty spinster aunt, Effie. From the moment the door of the room at the top of the stairs is opened for her by sympathetic and sensitive housekeeper, Mrs Pilton, imaginative and lonely Sabrina conjurs up an entire history revolving around the room's previous inhabitant, Hilary Shenstone. The Shenstones own Nuns Farthing and the youngest son, Hilary is off in India carrying on in his father's dangerous tradition of intrepid Englishman working for the Home Office. As Sabrina thumbs through Hilary's library at home, we glimpse a bit of the adventure of Hilary's life as his plane goes down miles away from Nuns Farthing. Instantaneously, thoughts of his childhood mysteriously and irrationally capture his mind, and Hilary finds this inexplicable longing compells him to make the long journey home. After much soul-seeking and understanding, Hilary reconciles with his old life and moves towards his new one back at the home of his childhood. When he arrives, Mrs. Pilton recognizes him on sight and sends him with her blessings up to his old room where she knows Sabrina innocently awaits. And as Hilary first lays eyes on the lovely fresh-faced girl, he realizes why he was driven to make this homecoming---this is the girl he is destined for, the ONE he has been waiting for up until now to make his wife. Sabrina already half in love with him from her own imaginings, cannot help but fall for him, head over heels. Magical halycon days lie ahead for a couple star crossed in their love for one another . . .except for one slight detail . . . Hilary died in the plane in India.
Sound intriguing? It is. Written in a sweet yet unsentimental way that is perfect for all age groups, the story moves along swiftly, keeping the reader wondering 'what is to become of the two lovers?' living on different planes. The likeable characters epitomize the era between the World Wars; the politeness and sensibilities portrayed enhance Sabina's wistful frustrations and emphasize Hilary's desperate need to make this one last connection work.
This bittersweet love story is recommended to all who love spending a rainy afternoon watching romantic black&white films while fantasizing about that perfect lover.
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Summary: An ethereal love story to be treasured.
Review: My aunt recently asked what my favorite books of all time were, and I told her about a wonderful story called "Tryst," which I had read when I was 15 and had never forgotten. I explained it was a story about love forbidden by circumstance with an ending which is simultaneously tragic and sublime. I remembered how this story had touched my heart, and although I had subsequently read hundreds of books, it still remained one of my favorites. I just turned 34, and my aunt found this book on amazon.com and gave it to me for my birthday. I feel like I have just found a long lost friend, and I can't wait to read it again! In fact, I think I'll start it right now....
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