Published by Sceptre 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1444731254 ISBN 13: 9781444731255
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. She chooses to live apart from the small community around her in the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape. Until the stranger children come and Luce inherits her murdered sister?s troubled twins. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. Bringing fire. And murder. And love. 272 pages.
Published by Sceptre 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1444731254 ISBN 13: 9781444731255
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Good. The main lesson Luce had learned was that you couldn't count on anybody. She chooses to live apart from the small community around her in the lonesome beauty of the forest, across the far shore of the mountain lake from town, Luce acts as caretaker to an empty, decaying Lodge, a relic of holidaymakers a century before. Her days are long and peaceful, her nights filled with Nashville radio and yellow lights shimmering on the black water. A solitary life, and the perfect escape. Until the stranger children come and Luce inherits her murdered sister?s troubled twins. But the coming of the children changes everything, cracking open her solitary life in difficult, hopeful, dangerous ways. Bringing fire. And murder. And love. 272 pages.
Published by Sceptre (UK) 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1444720252 ISBN 13: 9781444720259
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
Condition: Very Good. After Mia Fredricksen 's husband of thirty years asks for a pause ? so he can indulge his infatuation with a young French colleague ? she cracks up (briefly), rages (deeply), then decamps to her prairie childhood home. There, gradually, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother 's circle of feisty widows; the young woman next do? and the diabolical teenage girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, Mia knows what 's worth fighting for ? and on whose terms. Provocative, mordant, and fiercely intelligent, this is a gloriously vivacious tragi-comedy about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old war between the sexes. 224 pages.