Daughters Of The House

Michele Roberts

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Publisher:Virago Press Ltd ISBN:9781853816000 Published Date:11th March 1993 Dimensions:126 X 192 X 14 mm Weight:0.1588 kilograms Pages:192 Binding:Paperback Condition:VeryGood Notes:**PAPERBACK** No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition

Short Description

Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope

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Full Description

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid old Normandy house where Therese and Leonie, French and English cousins, grow up after the war. Intrigued by adults' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village's buried shame, a shame that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives.

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Review

Remarkable and beautifully written * INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY *
A brave and richly imagined novel, full of thrilling set pieces. The new prestige it seems likely to earn for one of our best writers is long overdue. * GUARDIAN *
Subtle and persuasive * COSMOPOLITAN *
An intense piece of writing, in which the transfigured mundane world of recipes, parental prohibitions and almost ritualised gossip is posed against official purity and religiosity, and shown to be superior. * TLS *

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