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Daughters of the House

Daughters of the House

by Michele Roberts (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 1993

    $3.40

  • Used

    Hardcover 1992

    $3.25
Synopsis

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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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: UK ed.
 Publisher: Virago
Published: 11 Mar 1993
ISBN 10: 1853816000
ISBN 13: 9781853816000
Book Overview: Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope

Media Reviews
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 *
Author Bio
Michele Roberts is the author of eleven highly-acclaimed novels as well as short stories and poetry, most recently collected in All the Selves I Was. Half-English and half-French, she lives in London and Mayenne, France.