β Becca Colton
π Fiction
π
2019
π English
β 31 KB
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β¦ LIBER β¦
The Photographer's Wife
β Scribed by Suzanne Joinson
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing;Bloomsbury USA
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 184 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1620408325
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Jerusalem, 1920: in an already fractured city, eleven-year-old Prudence feels the tension rising as her architect father launches an ambitious -- and wildly eccentric -- plan to redesign the Holy City by importing English parks to the desert. Prue, known as the 'little witness', eavesdrops underneath the tables of tearooms and behind the curtains of the dance-halls of the city's elite, watching everything but rarely being watched herself. Around her, British colonials, exiled Armenians and German officials rub shoulders as they line up the pieces in a political game: a game destined to lead to disaster.
When Prue's father employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between him and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer. And, after Harrington learns that Eleanora's husband is a nationalist, intent on...
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