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To Frances, an only child living in McCarthy-era Brooklyn, her mother, Hilda, and her aunt Pearl seem as if they have always been friends. Frances does not question the love between the two women until her father's job as a teacher is threatened by anti-Communism, just as Frances begins to learn about her family's past. Why does Hilda refer to her "first pregnancy," as if Frances wasn't her only child? Whose baby shoes are hidden in Hilda's dresser drawer? Why is there tension when Pearl and her husband come to visit?
The story of a young girl in the fifties and her elders' coming-of-age in the unquiet thirties, this book resonates deeply, revealing in beautiful, clear language the complexities of friendship and loss.
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The shrimp and the anemone -- Hilda's letter -- The sixth heaven -- Eustace and Hilda.
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WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON STATE BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION In seventh-century Britain, a new religion is coming ashore and small kingdoms are merging, frequently and violently. Hild is the kings youngest niece, with a glittering mind and a natural authority. She is destined to become one of the pivotal
**A brilliant, lush, sweeping historical novel about the rise of the most powerful woman of the Middle Ages: Hild** Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, usually violently. A new religion is coming ashore; the old gods' priests are worr
Amidst all the characters in this moving novel of loss, love, and renewal, the two who grieve hardest have the most to discover. Tilda Carr has lost the love of her lifeβher husband, Haroldβafter forty years of marriage, while her granddaughter and namesake, Tilly, has lost her grandfather and best