The Clothes on Their Backs |
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Author:
| Grant, Linda |
Narrated by:
| Duncan, Sandra |
ISBN: | 978-1-4074-3590-9 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2009 |
Publisher: | W. F. Howes Limited
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Imprint: | Clipper Audio |
Book Format: | Miscellaneous print |
List Price: | AUD $121.00 |
Book Description:
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In a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications,...
More DescriptionIn a red brick mansion block off the Marylebone Road, Vivien, a sensitive, bookish girl grows up sealed off from both past and present by her timid refugee parents. Then one morning a glamorous uncle appears, dressed in a mohair suit, with a diamond watch on his wrist and a girl in a leopard-skin hat on his arm. Why is Uncle Sandor so violently unwelcome in her parents' home? This is a novel about survival - both banal and heroic - and a young woman who discovers the complications, even betrayals, that inevitably accompany the fierce desire to live.