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SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2010.In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. Is is the early twentieth century and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. The upper floors house foreign women of privilege, tended to by Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life, only to retreat behind a mask of...
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117,05 DKK
Forlag
Vintage Digital
Udgivet
5 august 2010
Længde
272 sider
Genrer
1DNF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781407074177
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2010.In a remote, piney wood in Finland stands a convalescent hospital called Suvanto. Is is the early twentieth century and the patients, all women, seek relief from ailments real and imagined. The upper floors house foreign women of privilege, tended to by Sunny Taylor, an American who has fled an ill-starred life, only to retreat behind a mask of crisp professionalism. On a late summer's day, a new patient arrives on Sunny's ward, a faded, irascible former ballroom-dance instructor named Julia Dey. Sunny takes it upon herself to pierce the mystery of Julia's reserve, but soon Julia's tightly coiled anger places her at the centre of the ward's tangled life...