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Format: Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St Martins Pr Special
Published: Nov 2004
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $16.00
Pages: 219
Growing up with her younger sister, Lucille, under the care of their grandmother, two great-aunts, and eccentric aunt, Ruth, a young girl struggling to overcome haunting family memories in a town that will not let her forget, gradually grows close to Sylvie, the sister of her dead mother. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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