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Ariveting, old-fashioned story with a modern spirit, Mary Sharratt"s follow-up to her much-acclaimed debut, Summit Avenue, is the story of three women forging their own paths in a midwestern farming community. In 1923, as book-loving Penny enters adolescence, her mother pulls her out of school to go to work. Penny, the only child of Barbara, an embittered single mother who works as a cleaning woman for a wealthy family, sees no escape from her bleak existence until a scandalous figure arrives in the town of Minerva, Minnesota, and sets tongues wagging. Cora, very pregnant, very headstrong, and very alone, has come to make a home on her grandfather"s farm. Intrigued by this curious woman, Penny goes to work for her. Like Sue Monk Kidd"s The Secret Life of Bees, The Real Minerva is a suspenseful and moving novel about the strength of women and the unexpected bonds that form between them.

Book details

• Full title: The Real Minerva
• Author: Mary Sharratt
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259
• EAN: 9780618618880
• ISBN: 0618618880
• ID: 11444614
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Weight: 285 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 130 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: January 2006

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