Description
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid old Normandy house where Therèse and Leonie, French and English cousins, grow up after the war. Intrigued by adults' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village's buried shame, a shame that will haunt them both for the rest of their lives.
Awards
Booker Prize (Longlist — 1992)
WH Smith Literary Award (Winner — 1993)
Publication
Virago Press, London (1993), 192 pages
Call number
F ROB
Subjects
Physical description
192 p.; 7.8 inches