The Daughters of the House

by Nicola Thorne

Book Overview

1851, the year of the Great Exhibition. The future and fortunes of the Vestrey family looks as rich with promise as Paxton's magnificent palace of glass. Three beautiful Vestrey daughters - the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0583133177
• ISBN13: 9780583133173
• Release Date: August 1984
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

provincial French Catholics

The English writer Michèle Roberts wrote Daughters of the House. The novel is a narrative about provincial French Catholics in post-WWII Normandy and thirty years later. Cousins Thérèse and Léonie are the protagonists within the familial and village setting. The reader enters the intimacy of the girls' lives. We poach mackerel in the kitchen, experience sexual awakening, and celebrate the Virgin Mother in a nocturnal forest. Suspense is carried by random bits concerning a tragedy in the village's history. A further twist is the possibility of a secrecy in the cousins' background. The girls disentangle the web of events the years covered over.