The housemaid's daughter, by Barbara Mutch
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The housemaid's daughter, by Barbara Mutch
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eng
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fiction
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The housemaid's daughter
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863100760
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by Barbara Mutch
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Thorndike press large print core
Summary
When Cathleen Harrington leaves her home in Ireland in 1919 to travel to South Africa, she knows that she does not love the man she is to marry there -- her fiancé Edward, whom she has not seen for five years. Isolated and estranged in a small town in the harsh Karoo desert, her only real companions are her diary and her housemaid, Miriam and later Miriam's daughter, Ada. When Ada is born, Cathleen recognizes in her someone she can love and respond to in a way that she cannot with her own family. Under Cathleen's tutelage, Ada grows into an accomplished pianist and a reader who cannot resist turning the pages of the diary, discovering the secrets Cathleen sought to hide. As they grow closer, Ada sees new possibilities in front of her -- a new horizon. But in one night, everything changes, and Cathleen comes home from a trip to find that Ada has disappeared, scorned by her own community. Cathleen must make a choice: should she conform to society, or search for the girl who has become closer to her than her own daughter?
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- Irish fiction -- South Africa
- Bildungsromans
- South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Social pressure -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women pioneers -- Fiction
- Interracial friendship -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Race relations -- Fiction
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Apartheid -- Fiction
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- Irish fiction -- South Africa
- Bildungsromans
- South Africa -- History -- 1909-1961 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Social pressure -- Fiction
- Female friendship -- Fiction
- Women pioneers -- Fiction
- Interracial friendship -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Race relations -- Fiction
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- Fiction
- Apartheid -- Fiction
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