The day of the butterfly

Norah Lofts

earliest edition we have, 1979 Bodley Head, 1979 341 pages

Without becoming a prostitute herself, lovely but impoverished Daisy Holt dances for the patrons of a brothel, and, when her Monet radiance attracts the eye of a painter, she experiences her first love and her first sorrow.

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The day of the butterfly edition · 1980 · G. K. Hall · 585 pages
The day of the butterfly edition · 1980 · Doubleday · 328 pages
Day of the butterfly edition · 1980 · Corgi · 342 pages
Day of the butterfly edition · 1979 · Bodley Head · 341 pages

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