Daughters Of The House by Michele Roberts

Daughters Of The House by Michele Roberts

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 piecesThe 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 *

Michele Roberts is the author of eleven highly-acclaimed novels as well as short stories and poetry, most recently collected in All the Selves I Was. Half-English and half-French, she lives in London and Mayenne, France.

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ISBN 13	9781853816000
ISBN 10	1853816000
Title	Daughters Of The House
Author	Michele Roberts
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	1993-03-11
Number of pages	192
Prizes	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
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