Souvenir of Cold Springs

Souvenir of Cold SpringsAuthor: Florey, Kitty Burns ISBN: 9781582431536 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US Year first published: 26 Jul 2001 Pages: 312 Format: Hardback One family's secrets, betrayals, and hopes, are woven together through four generations into a tapestry of memory and love in this humorous novel of power and grace. Tumbling backwards in time, from 1987 to 1938, and seen through the eyes of four generations of women, Souvenir of Cold Springs is the story of one

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Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster

As tourists flock to Havana to marvel at a city frozen in time

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'A fascinating portrait of an astonishing woman' Kirkus Reviews

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is both uplifting and heartbreaking

Beginning a few weeks before the outbreak of war in August 1914

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