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The Summer After the Funeral

(1973)
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Athene Price has always been dutiful, clever, sweet-natured and, above all, calm - but then her father dies and, just as if a stopper has been removed, all sorts of wilder emotions come bubbling forth. This is a brilliant, painful, subtle book about the exhausting, grievous experience of breaking away from family life into a workable adult personality.


Genre: General Fiction

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