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Author
Publisher
Persephone Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 413 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love A moving story by Dorothy Whipple set in the 1950s.
Ellen and Avery North share a stable and secure life. Everything is well looked after: their teenage children, their garden, and Avery's elderly mother who lives nearby. In time, old Mrs. North decides she is in need of a live-in companion, and Louise Lanier arrives after responding to a newspaper advert. When Louise sets...
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1974 Wales, thirteen-year-old Petra and her best friend Sharon are madly in love with David Cassidy and enter a contest whose winners will be flown to America to meet him. In 1998 London, Petra is on the brink of a divorce. While cleaning out her mother's closet, she finds the letter her mother intercepted declaring her the winner of the Cassidy contest. After 24 years, the girls head to Las Vegas to meet their teen idol.
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