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Ten-year-old Rebecca is living in the country with her family when Sibyl Jardine, an enigmatic and powerful old woman, returns to her property in the neighborhood. The two families, once linked in the past, meet again, with the result that Rebecca becomes drawn into the strange complications of the old lady's life—with her husband, her errant daughter, and her grandchildren. Through the spellbound eyes of the young Rebecca we enter into an intricate and scandalous family history and slowly the story of the passionate, stormy life of Mrs. Jardine unfolds.
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Rosamond Lehmann (1901-1990) was born in Buckinghamshire, the second of thefour children of R.C. Lehmann. She was a scholar at Girton College, Cambridgeand one of the most distinguished British novelists of this century.
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I cannot doubt that this is Miss Lehmann's best and most permanent book * RAYMOND MORTIMER *
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- PublisherVirago UK
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0860683303
- ISBN 13 9780860683308
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages318
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