Lesley Glaister, Author Atheneum Books $19 (184p) ISBN 978-0-689-12140-1
There are no tricks and many treats in this gem of a novel, which centers on three households in a small English neighborhood in the interval between Halloween and Guy Fawkes Day (November 5). Octogenarian Olive, a once beautiful radical who has...
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Lesley Glaister, Author Atheneum Books $19 (185p) ISBN 978-0-689-12199-9
Motherhood, artistic creativity and the mysterious powers of the earth are among the weighty themes tackled in this affecting novel from English author Glaister ( Digging to Australia ). Nadia, a potter, lives with her spelunking boyfriend Simon in...
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Lesley Glaister, Author Atheneum Books $18.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-689-12129-6
``You live a simple life here away from corruption,'' an abusive father tells his four motherless daughters in this eerily tragic and mesmerizing first novel. ``I cannot risk you becoming corrupted.'' Virtually imprisoned in their rural house even...
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Lesley Glaister, Author Atheneum Books $19 (214p) ISBN 978-0-689-12162-3
Dangerous secrets and sinister undertones power this uncommon coming-of-age tale. Writing with authority about adolescent insecurity, British author Glaister ( Honour Thy Father ) invests her theme with dramatic resonance, giving her slightly misfit
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Lesley Glaister, Author Wyatt Book $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-16822-3
On the day that Griselda spends bracing herself to be dumped by her female lover, Foxy, Griselda's father hangs himself. So begins the poignant, absorbing seventh novel from England's Glaister (whose Honour Thy Father won the Somerset Maugham Award).
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