Daughters Of The House
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Published:11th Mar '93
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Utterly beguiling' Joanna Trollope
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid old Normandy house where Therèse 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.
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 *
- Winner of WH Smith Literary Prize 1994
- Winner of WH Smith Annual Literary Award 1993
- Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1993
- Short-listed for Booker Prize for Fiction 1992
ISBN: 9781853816000
Dimensions: 198mm x 140mm x 13mm
Weight: 136g
192 pages