- Orphans, Social classes, Sick, Fiction
After surviving the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fires, two teenage girls, a wealthy semi-invalid and her hired companion, travel together to Ireland and discover they share much in common, from a love of romance novels to grief over the loss of their mothers.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Jean Thesman
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670892785
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About Jean Thesman · 1929–2016
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