Celebrating 90 Years of Penguin Michael Joseph publishing with the Mermaid collection- Lettice Cooper's Fenny with a foreword by Jennie Godfrey
<p>Yorkshire teacher Ellen Fenwick has never been abroad. But when her mother dies, this young woman finds herself taking a position as governess to an English girl in Florence in the summer of 1933. Little does Ellen realise how this girl, Juliet, and her family will claim her.</p><p>For as the summer passes, Ellen falls so in love with Italy and her new home that she cannot bear to leave - even when her own hopes of love are cruelly thwarted. Even when the shadow of war falls across the country, she doesn't flee but clings on - for her friends, for those she loves more than herself.</p><p>Ellen - selfless, big-hearted, accepting - cannot know what is coming. Yet, she will not face it alone . . .</p>