The Little Girls (Paperback, 1st Anchor Books ed)

In 1914, three eleven-year-old girls buried a box in a thicket on the coast of England, shortly before World War I sent their lives on divergent paths. Nearly fifty years later, a series of mysteriously-worded classified ads brings the women reluctantly together again. Dinah has grown from a chubby, bossy girl to a beautiful, eccentric widow. The clever, reticent Clare has blossomed into an imperious entrepreneur of independent means. And Sheila--who was once the pretty princess of her small universe--has weathered disappointed aspirations to become a chic and glossily correct housewife.
As these radically different women confront one another and their shared secrets, the hard-won complacencies of their present selves are irrevocably shattered. In a novel as subtle and compelling as a mystery, Elizabeth Bowen explores the buried revelations--and the dangers--that attend the summoning up of childhood and the long-concealed scars of the past.

General

Imprint:	Anchor Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2004
First published:	July 2004
Authors:	Elizabeth Bowen
Dimensions:	202 x 131 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	320
Edition:	1st Anchor Books ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4000-3479-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-4000-3479-5
Barcode:	9781400034796

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