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Angelina's Children

ISBN-13: 9781904738107

Contributor(s): Alice Ferney

Subject: Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post 1945)

Publisher Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press

Publication Date: 02-06-2005

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£8.99

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About the book

A beautifully written novel set in a gypsy settlement in a suburban no-man's land. Angelina, the clan leader, dominates her sons and their wives. In a world without jobs, running water or electricity a family is always threatened with expulsion. Into this environment arrives Esther, a gadge, a librarian with a mission - to bring books to children who have none. The gypsies greet her with suspicion, but are eventually seduced by the weekly readings to the children. Esther then gets adopted...