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Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid, old Normandy house in which Therese and Leonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up after the war. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find buried in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will come to haunt their adult lives.

I did not really take to this novel. I have read several dealing with adolescents recently, which have managed to capture the angst of growing up in a more vivid fashion. Nevertheless it was nominated for the Booker prize in 1992, and won the WH Smith Literary Award.

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On the Bookcrossing Stall at the Organic festival.

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Caught at Organic Festival.

Picked up at the July 2017 meeting