Summary
For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances - a hundred years apart - from the small New England town they call home.
Henrietta and Jane are growing up in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town, their mother a remote artist, their father in thrall to the folklore and legend of their corner of New England. When Henrietta falls under the spell of Kaus, an outsider and petty criminal, Jane takes to trailing the coup…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472263292 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472263294 |
| Author: | Abi Maxwell |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Tinder Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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Critics Review
A provocative and absorbing coming-of-age novel
Maxwell’s landscape is not modern culture but traditional folklore… secrets are kept, secrets are told… beautifully precise - Harpers
There’s a plain-spoken quality to Maxwell’s writing that suggests comparisons to Marilynne Robertson and Alice Munro - Minneapolis Star TribuneAbout The Author
Abi Maxwell
Abi Maxwell is the author of an acclaimed story collection, LAKE PEOPLE, and her fiction has also appeared in McSweeney’s. She studied writing at the University of Montana and now lives in New Hampshire, where she grew up, with her husband and son.
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