School for Love
โ Scribed by Manning, Olivia
- Publisher
- New York Review Books
- Year
- 2013;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 134 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Felix Latimer, a recently orphaned teenager, arrives in Jerusalem from Baghdad, biding time until he can secure passage to England. Adrift and deeply lonely, Felix has no choice but to room in a boardinghouse run by Miss Bohun, a relative he has never met. Miss Bohun is a holy terror, a cheerless miser who proclaims the ideals of a fundamentalist group known as the Ever-Readies{u2014}joy, charity, and love{u2014}even as she makes life a misery for her boarders. Then Mrs. Ellis, a fascinating young widow, moves into the house and disrupts its dreary routine for good.
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