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Title Statement | The Beacon / Susan Hill. |
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Author | Hill, Susan, 1942- |
Publication | London: Chatto & Windus, 2008. |
Extent of Item | 154 p. |
ISBN | 0701183403 9780701183400 |
Other Number | 1957214 |
Summary | When Fleet Street journalist Frank Prime publishes a misery memoir describing his pitiful childhood in the north of England, his siblings--especially dutiful spinster May, who remained at home to care for their dying mother--are bewildered by his invented personal history. |
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By Topic | Single women--Fiction |
Parent and adult child--Fiction | |
Family secrets--Fiction | |
Journalists--Fiction | |
By Location | England--Fiction |
By Genre | Domestic fiction |