![]() ![]() Kate notices that Cathy is pregnant and assumes the father is Mr. Miss Gallagher finds out about their liaison and threatens to expose them to their grandfather. An older, wealthy neighbour Mr Bullivant befriends Cathy, but she is more interested in her brother.Ĭathy and Rob's contact becomes more intimate and eventually sexual. ![]() Cathy and Rob have little contact with the outside world, and as they get older, they grow closer. Their governess is Miss Gallagher, but the siblings hate her. They live with their grandfather and are brought up by one of the servants, Kate. Their mother had abandoned them for a better life in southern Europe, and their father was committed to a sanatorium. Plot summary Ĭathy and her older brother Rob grow up without their parents on an estate in rural England in the early 20th century. The novel was the first recipient of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 1996. A Spell of Winter is a 1995 literary gothic novel by Helen Dunmore, set in England, around the time of World War I. ![]()
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