- Family problems, Families, Secrets, Juvenile fiction
The alternating narratives of art tutor Samuel Godwin and governess Charlotte Agnew, who work for the wealthy Farrow family in 1898 England, reveal the secrets that almost everyone in the household is hiding.
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Grave, earnest, intimate and classical in form.
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- Linda Newbery
- First published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385751025
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