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Item Details
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SLEEP PALE SISTER
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| By: |
Joanne Harris |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£4.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
009927051X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099270515 |
| Publisher: |
CORNERSTONE |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 1994 |
| Pages: |
352 |
| Description: |
A gothic tale set in 19th-century London, by the author of "The Evil Seed". A domineering and puritanical artist finds, in nine-year-old Effie, the perfect model he has been seeking, and she later becomes his wife. But Effie is drawn into a dangerous underworld of vice, blackmail and murder. |
| Synopsis: |
Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nie-year-old Effie he finds her. Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, Effie seems the ideal wife. But something inside her is about to awaken. Drawn by her lover, Mose, into a dangerous underworld of intrigue and blackmail, she meets Fanny Miller, the brothel-keeper, and her shadowy daughter, Marta - murdered ten years ago on the day of Henry's weekly visit...And as friendship becomes possession and Henry's secret past is revealed, Effie and Marta plan their revenge together. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Arrow Books Ltd |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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