# The Long Afternoon

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- Book: [The Long Afternoon](https://www.bookquiver.com/giles-waterfield/the-long-afternoon) ([The Long Afternoon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/giles-waterfield/the-long-afternoon.md))
- Authors: [Giles Waterfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/giles-waterfield)
- Publisher: Tinder Press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7221-156-9
- Published: 2013-12-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In the 1930s, Henry and Helen Williamson arrive on the French Riviera looking for a house. Barely thirty, Henry has been forced to retire from the Indian civil service through ill-health. They fall in love with the dreamlike Lou Paradou and set about constructing a life of ease, and a ravishing garden. But as the political conflict gathers, so the atmosphere of their new home becomes increasingly unquiet and a tragic fate befalls them. THE LONG AFTERNOON enchants and involves the reader, just as the Williamsons' garden seduces its visitors.