- Castles, Widows, FICTION, Literary
Three women, haunted by the past and the secrets they hold Set at the end of World War II, in a crumbling Bavarian castle that once played host to all of German high society, a powerful and propulsive story of three widows whose lives and fates become intertwined--an affecting, shocking, and ultimately redemptive novel from the author of the New York Times Notable Book The Hazards of Good Breeding.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and overwhelming.
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- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Jessica Shattuck
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 368
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, HarperLuxe, William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062563668
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