David Sibley
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English
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In the brief golden years of the Edwardian era the McCosh sisters -- Christabel, Ottilie, Rosie and Sophie -- grow up in an idyllic household in the countryside south of London. On one side, their neighbors are the proper Pendennis family, recently arrived from Baltimore, whose close-in-age boys -- Sidney, Albert and Ashbridge -- shake their father's hand at breakfast and address him as "sir." On the other side is the Pitt family: a "resolutely French"...
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Corelli's Mandolin: a powerfully evocative and emotional novel, set in the years between the two World Wars, about a closely-knit group of British men and women struggling to cope with the world -- and the selves -- left to them in the wake of World War I. They were inseparable childhood friends. Some were lost to the war. The others' lives were unimaginably upended, and now, postwar, they've scattered: to Ceylon and...