The den: a novel

✍ Scribed by Abi Maxwell

• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 169 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 052565528X

✦ Synopsis

A luminous, hypnotic story of youth, sex, and power that tells of two young women who find themselves ostracized from the same small New England community for the same reasons --though they are separated by 150 years.
Henrietta and Jane are fifteen and twelve, growing up in a farmhouse on the outskirts of town. Their mother is a painter, lost in her art, their father a cook who's raised them on magical tales about their land. When Henrietta becomes obsessed with a boy from town, Jane takes to trailing the young couple, spying on their trysts--until one night, Henrietta vanishes into the woods. Elspeth and Claire are sisters separated by an ocean--Elspeth's pregnancy at seventeen meant she was quickly married and sent to America to avoid certain shame. But when she begins ingratiating herself to the town's wealthy mill owner, a series of wrenching and violent events unfold, culminating in her disappearance. As Jane and Claire search in their own times for...

✦ Subjects

FICTION -- Coming of Age