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Behaviour of Moths - Hardcover

Adams, Poppy

 
9781844084869: Behaviour of Moths
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1844084868 ISBN 13: 9781844084869
Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, of loss, and of old rivalries plays across Ginny's mind.

Why is Vivi coming home? Ginny has been selling off the family furniture over the years, gradually shutting off each wing of the house and retreating into the precise routines and isolation that define her days. Only the attic remains untouched. There, collected over several generations, are walls lined with pinned and preserved Bordered Beauties and Rusty Waves, Feathered Footmen and Great Brocades, Purple Cloud, Angle Shades, the Gothic and the Stranger ...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Aged 34, Poppy Adams is a documentary filmmaker with a Natural Science degree who has made films for the BBC, Channel 4 and the Discovery Channel. She has three children and lives with her husband in London.

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Verlag
Little, Brown Book Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1844084868
ISBN 13 
9781844084869
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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