House of Women

Lynn Freed

first published 2002 Flamingo, 2003 paperback 160 pages

"Seventeen-year-old Thea lives a strange and sheltered life with her mother, Nalia, retired opera singer and Holocaust survivor. A virtual prisoner of her mother's obsessive love, Thea escapes with a mysterious and suave friend of her father's and is taken to the remote island on which he lives. "The rule is this," she says. "I am to pretend that my other life does not exist. And yet, pretending, it seems to be true....

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House of Women edition · 2008 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007291496
House of Women paperback · 2003 · Flamingo · 160 pages · 9780007133314
House of Women paperback · 2003 · Back Bay Books · 240 pages · 9780316095563
House of women edition · 2002 · Little, Brown · 211 pages
House of Women edition · 2002 · HarperCollins Publishers Limited · 9780007133291

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