***A Place in the Country* is W. G. Sebald's meditation on the six artists and writers who shaped his creative mind--and the last of this great writer's major works to be translated into English.** *This beautiful hardcover edition, with a full-cloth case, includes more than 40 pieces of art a
A Place in the Country
β Scribed by Adler, Elizabeth
- Book ID
- 108862676
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 478 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780312668365
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β¦ Synopsis
From The New York Times bestselling author of From Barcelona With Love comes a new novel that will transport you to a world of intriguing locales and bring you home to where the heart is Caroline Evans is a single mom trying to raise her fifteen-year-old daughter, Issy, as best she can. Her ex-husband, James, was a philandering charmer, and a wealthy one at that. Their life had been lavish, but Caroline couldn't put up with his cheating and left him, taking Issy with her. And Issy has never forgiven her for this. Now, they live in the countryside outside London, where Caroline has built a modestly successful catering business, and Issy is now at an all-girls boarding school. Things are beginning to feel normal. But when James mysteriously appears on her doorstep one night and then vanishes soon after, Caroline feels her world being turned upside down once again. Delving into a world of high-stakes finance she knows little about, Caroline and Issy must find a...
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