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MuzeFormatDesc: Audio Cassette
ISBN-10: 0754063127
ISBN-13: 9780754063124
Aug 2003
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Unabridged
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In the mid-eighteenth century, an unsavory character and his simpleton son become involved in the lives of a wealthy English family when that family's eldest son is disinherited because of his love of music.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "A fine lady went to Stowe Fair. She was pregnant for the first time and, keen to know what the future held for her, she consulted an old gypsy woman."
Industry Reviews
"This is the stuff of high melodrama, and readers of the genre who will be swept along by the theatrics will not be disappointed."
Kirkus Reviews (09/15/2001)
"[A]n exquisitely written historical novel....[Gavin] has pored over the historical documents with minute concentration and absorbed them so thoroughly that at no point does one weary of the details. The result is a novel of 18th-century Britain that not only seems utterly plausible, but whose well-known landscape in her lyrical and luminous style, feels freshly rinsed."
New York Times Book Review - Rebecca Fraser (12/02/2001)
"Gavin has put together a raging cauldron of scandal, secrets, and sin, along with a healthy dose of redemption, justice, and fairy-tale endings, and the result is a densely written but immensely involving piece of historical fiction."
Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books - Janice M. Del Negro (02/01/2002)
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