Greater Love by Lucy Wadham

Greater Love by Lucy Wadham

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Aisha begins life as a Portuguese peasant, moving to Paris to seek out a less stifling existence as the nanny for a bourgeois couple. However, when Aisha's brother Jose, newly arrived in Paris, kills himself as a protest against the cruelty of the modern world, her life falls apart.

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Greater Love by Lucy Wadham

Aisha begins life as a Portuguese peasant, moving to Paris to seek out a less stifling existence as the nanny for a bourgeois couple. However, when Aisha's brother Jose, newly arrived in Paris, kills himself as a protest against the cruelty of the modern world, her life falls apart. In desperation, she journeys to Morocco to find the sheikh who brought Jose to Islam.
"'[A] refined literary saga.. Gripping.' Financial Times"
Lucy Wadham was born in London in 1964 and educated at Oxford. She works in Paris as a freelance journalist and is married with three children. Lost, her first novel, was published in 2000 to great acclaim.
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ISBN 13 9780571234905
ISBN 10 0571234909
Title Greater Love
Author Lucy Wadham
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2008-07-03
Number of pages 304
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.