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Sister Noon

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(368 Pages)
Product Number: LP3599
Released: 01 Oct, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781510009707
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

San Francisco in the 1890s is a town of contradictions - home to a respectable middle class, but with the Wild West lingering in the imagination... Lizzie Hayes, a middle-aged spinster, is praised for her volunteer work with the Ladies' Relief and Protection Society, known as the ‘Brown Ark.’ Lizzie is waiting for a spark that will liberate her from convention. When the wealthy, ill-reputed Mary Ellen Pleasant shows up at the Brown Ark with an orphan, Lizzie is drawn to them. It is the beautiful Mrs Pleasant, object of suspicion because of her mysterious past and rumoured voodoo practise, who holds the key to freeing Lizzie's rebellious nature.

Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler
Original Publish Date: 01 Oct, 2015

All Formats/Editions

CD
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Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler
Narrator(s): Liza Ross
Product Number CX3158
Released: 01 Oct, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510008694
MP3 CD
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Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler
Narrator(s): Liza Ross
Product Number MPCD1275
Released: 01 Oct, 2015
Business Term: Purchase
Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510010062
Playaway
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Author(s): Karen Joy Fowler
Narrator(s): Liza Ross
Product Number D4279
Released: 01 Jan, 2016
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781510016774

Professional reviews

"Sister Noon is the story of Lizzie Hayes, whose dull life is about to be shaken up by a mysterious and powerful woman. ‘Robust, sly, witty, elegant, unexpected.’ NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ‘Fowler has a voice like no other, lyrical, shrewd and addictive, with a quiet deadpan humour that underlies almost every sentence.’ NEWSDAY"

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