A World of Love"In A World of Love, an uneasy group of relations are living under one roof at Montefort, a decaying manor in the Irish countryside. When twenty-year-old Jane finds in the attic a packet of love letters written years ago by Guy, her mother's one-time fiance who died in World War I, the discovery has explosive repercussions. It is not clear to whom the letters are addressed, and their appearance begins to lay bare the strange and unspoken connections between the adults now living in the house. Soon, a girl on the brink of womanhood, a mother haunted by love lost, and a ruined matchmaker with her own claim on the dead wage a battle that makes the ghostly Guy as real a presence in Montefort as any of the living."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... pixie hood , and often perched atop of a cracked gatepost , was to be found contemplatively wait- ing , one knew for what . The Protestant Van - it had been said — became like a bag of cats inside from the moment Maud stepped up into it ...
... pixie hood , and often perched atop of a cracked gatepost , was to be found contemplatively wait- ing , one knew for what . The Protestant Van - it had been said — became like a bag of cats inside from the moment Maud stepped up into it ...
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... pixie hood , and less visibly was accompanied by Gay David . She looked patronizingly at her family through the wind- screen . Harris , reoccupying the driver's place , said : " Well , look who's here , " without enthusiasm . " I ...
... pixie hood , and less visibly was accompanied by Gay David . She looked patronizingly at her family through the wind- screen . Harris , reoccupying the driver's place , said : " Well , look who's here , " without enthusiasm . " I ...
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... Ask me another , " said Harris sternly . " And what have you got there with you - a pixie , eh ? " For Maud's duality as a passenger became oppressive -sidelong communication , other than with her sister , had A WORLD OF LOVE 233.
... Ask me another , " said Harris sternly . " And what have you got there with you - a pixie , eh ? " For Maud's duality as a passenger became oppressive -sidelong communication , other than with her sister , had A WORLD OF LOVE 233.
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