An acute and socially aware novel about relationships through good times and bad, A Bonfire was Pamela Hansford Johnsons final and possibly most personal book, written in 1981, the year of her death. It tells the story of Emma, from her naive teenage years through her more reflective twenties, as she grows up in the 1920s and 1930s in London, and the characters that surround her: Emmas well-meaning, overbearing mother, the interminably gloomy Miss Plimsoll and the charismatic Stephen, with whom she falls deeply in love at the age of fifteen. A Bonfire is a warm, poignant and at times heartbreaking novel, and at its centre a coming of age story told with humour and insight.
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