A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. * This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman -- spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless -- who arrives in South Africa in the 1920s to take up a position as a housekeeper, and then proceeds to reinvent herself brazenly before our very eyes. * We're not given to know much of her English past, but are instead required to marvel at her performance as a bold, independent woman ...
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A gripping story about what one strong, sexy woman really wants, and gets. * This is simply a completely convincing tale, really well told in pitch-perfect prose, of a young Englishwoman -- spirited, bold, sexually liberated and ruthless -- who arrives in South Africa in the 1920s to take up a position as a housekeeper, and then proceeds to reinvent herself brazenly before our very eyes. * We're not given to know much of her English past, but are instead required to marvel at her performance as a bold, independent woman getting on, through depression, deceit and disappointment. * The novel has just the right amount of period feel, without ever becoming literary pastiche. In fact, it reals like a feminine counterpart to Stephen Millhauser's masterly Martin Dressler. * Short, sharp and seductive
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Very good in very good dust jacket. No marks inside. Some scratches on the front. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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