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Precious Bane

Precious Bane

by Mary Webb (Author)

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    Paperback 1980

    $22.07

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    Paperback 1981

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    Paperback 2003

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Synopsis

Born at the time of Waterloo in the wild country of Shropshire, Prudence Sarn is a wild, passionate girl, cursed with a hare lip -- her 'precious bane'. Cursed for it, too, by the superstitious people amongst whom she lives. Prue loves two things: the remote countryside of her birth and, hopelessly, Kester Woodseaves, the weaver. The tale of how Woodseaves gradually discerns Prue's true beauty is set against the tragic drama of Prue's brother, Gideon, a driven man who is out of harmony with the natural world.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 31 Dec 1980
ISBN 10: 0268015384
ISBN 13: 9780268015381

Media Reviews
[Webb] was a great mystic and a master of both inscape and landscape. Any dull afternoon in London is lifted by being transported to the Mary Webb country of the Shropshire hills and the Welsh borderland. MAIL ON SUNDAY
Author Bio
Mary Webb is a professional needlecraft and textiles designer. She studied embroidery, knitting and textile design at a London college, where she now teaches. Her designs have been published in a number of magazines in the UK, and she has written widely on a range of knitting and needlecraft topics.