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- Title: The Servants' Quarters
- Author : Lynn Freed
- Release Date : January 16, 2010
- Genre: Historical,Books,Romance,Fiction & Literature,Historical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 364 KB
Description
A âbeautifully told story of love and growthâ set in post-WWII South Africa (Booklist).
When disfigured soldier George Harding returns from the front, he moves a poor family into the servantâs quarters of his familyâs South African estate, saving them from financial ruinâand initiating a series of events that will change all of their fates forever.
Among the new tenants at Hardingâs Rest is Cressida, a young girl haunted by phantoms of World War II and the Holocaust, and terrified by Hardingâs gnarled body. Invited to the main house to help bring Hardingâs hopelessly timid nephew out of his shell, Cressida makes an impression on her familyâs benefactor.
As she blossoms into womanhood, Cressida slowly becomes beguiled by what once repulsed her, in this strange and beautiful decades-spanning novel that âblends Dickensian musings on class with a BrontĂ«-like love storyâ (San Francisco Chronicle).
âCressida, a young girl who watches those around her patch up their wounds from the war and carry on with the weight of pretense, is as observant and as wickedly truthful as any Jane Austen character.â âAmy Tan