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Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves

by RachelMalik (Author)

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    Hardcover 2017

    $15.47
Synopsis

'A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows' Sunday Times 'So lovely, gentle yet enthralling' Claire Fuller When Rene Hargreaves is billeted to Starlight Farm as a Land Girl, far from the city where she grew up, she finds farmer Elsie Boston and her country ways strange at first. Yet over the days and months Rene and Elsie come to understand and depend on each other. Soon they can no longer imagine a life apart. But a visitor from Rene's past threatens the life they have built together, a life that has always kept others at a careful distance. Soon they are involved in a war of their own that endangers everything and will finally expose them to the nation's press and the full force of the law.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: Fig Tree
Published: 27 Apr 2017
ISBN 10: 0241249635
ISBN 13: 9780241249635
Book Overview: An enthralling, incredibly moving novel with a crime at its heart, based on the extraordinary life of the author's own grandmother

Media Reviews
A surprisingly touching account of hidden lives forced out of the shadows * Sunday Times *
Part period piece, part courtroom drama, this is also a touching love story * Daily Mail *
So lovely, gentle yet enthralling * Claire Fuller *
Quietly gripping and intriguing * Elizabeth Buchan *
Skilful, persuasive, thoroughly enjoyable, unexpected * Penelope Lively *
A breathtaking debut * Prima *
A vivid exploration of family secrets uncovered and the effects of trauma, as well as a war story about women doing whatever they had to do to survive * Irish Times *
Author Bio
Rachel Malik was born in London in 1965 of mixed English and Pakistani parentage. She studied English at Cambridge and Linguistics at Strathclyde. For many years, Rachel taught English Literature at Middlesex University. Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves is her first novel.