Colour of Milk
The Colour of Milk is a literary tour de force of power, class, and fate, told in the fierce, urgent voice of the irrepressible Mary, a character as indelible as The Color Purple's Celie and Margaret Atwood's eponymous Alias Grace.Set in England in 1830, The Colour of Milk by Nell Leyshon is an emotionally haunting work of historical fiction — hailed as charming, Brontë-esque...and hard to forget” (Marian Keyes) — about an illiterate farm girl's emotional and intellectual awakening and its devastating consequences.Mary, the spirited youngest daughter of an angry, violent man, is sent to work for the local vicar and his invalid wife. Her stran…
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- ISBN: 978-0-06-219207-3
- EAN: 9780062192073
- Produktnummer: 29236535
- Verlag: Harper Collins
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 176 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 0 KB
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Nell Leyshon's first novel, Black Dirt, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize. She is also an award-winning dramatist whose plays include Comfort Me with Apples, winner of an Evening Standard Award, and Bedlam, which was the first play written by a woman for Shakespeare's Globe.
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