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**A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain’s best-loved authors...**
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Earnest, contemplative, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Rosamond Lehmann
- First published
- 1944
- Pages
- 312
- Publisher
- Reynal and Hitchcock, Harcourt, Brace & World, Collins
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780156102605
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