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Havisham, November 2013
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Picador
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
360 pages ISBN: 1250037271 EAN: 9781250037275 Kindle: B00B8S88AM Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
IN THE TRADITION OF WIDE SARGASSO SEA,
HAVISHAM IS THE ASTONISHING PRELUDE TO CHARLES
DICKENS'S GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
Before she
became the immortal and haunting Miss Havisham of Great
Expectations, she was Catherine, a young woman with all
of her dreams ahead of her. Spry, imperious, she is the
daughter of a wealthy brewer. But she is never far from the
smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse
wall—HAVISHAM—a reminder of all she owes to the family name
and the family business. Sent by her father to stay
with the Chadwycks, Catherine discovers elegant pastimes to
remove the taint of her family's new money. But for all her
growing sophistication, Catherine is anything but worldly,
and when a charismatic stranger pays her attention,
everything—her heart, her future, the very Havisham name—is
vulnerable. In Havisham, Ronald Frame unfurls
the psychological trauma that made young Catherine into Miss
Havisham and cursed her to a life alone, roaming the halls
of the mansion in the tatters of the dress she wore for the
wedding she was never to have.
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