Rachel Billington has received extraordinary
acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for her writ-
ing style, her penetrating characterizations, and
her gift of invention. Now, in Theo and Matilda,
she embarks in an exciting new direction.
Theo and Matilda is a lovestory played out
over the ages, a compelling, multilayered novel
about five different couples, all named Theo and
Matilda, whose romances span more than
twelve centuries:
~ In the year 770, in England, a young man
named Theo is taken into the Abbeyfields mon-
astery because he has the gift of song. There he
finds his love, Princess Matilda.
. In 1540, agents of King Henry VIII attack
the bastions of Catholicism. A young woman
named Matilda Whitfield meets Brother Theo-
dore, a monk who has nearly lost his faith.
~ In 1880, Theo and Matilda are the proprie-
tors of a sprawling Victorian mansion, Abbey-
fields H.all. Busy with a brood of children, they
feel an increasing distance from each other.
~ A hundred years later, around 1980, Abbey-
fields has become a psychiatric hospital, where
Theo and Matilda are patients.
~ Today, Abbeyfields is a modern condomin-
ium complex. A new Theo and Matilda have
come home in search of a kinder page of history
on which to write their story.
Rachel Billington plays freely with time but
never with place as she deftly links the fates of
the five couples in the broad context of history.
Richly imagined, witty, and surprising, Theo
and Matilda is a poignant novel suggesting the
eternal nature of love.
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