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    612-822-4611

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The Little Girls

The Little Girls

Bowen, Elizabeth

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 1400034795
ISBN13: 9781400034796
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: Jul 13 2004
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.24 Depth: 8.04
Language: English
In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctantly together again. Dinah has grown from a chubby, bossy girl to a beautiful, eccentric widow. The clever, reticent Clare has blossomed into an imperious entrepreneur of independent means. And Sheila--who was once the pretty princess of her small universe--has weathered disappointed aspirations to become a chic and glossily correct housewife.

As these radically different women confront one another and their shared secrets, the hard-won complacencies of their present selves are irrevocably shattered. In a novel as subtle and compelling as a mystery, Elizabeth Bowen explores the buried revelations--and the dangers--that attend the summoning up of childhood and the long-concealed scars of the past.

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