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Drowning Ruth

Fleeing the horrors of nursing during the Great War, Amanda Starkey retreats to the family farm, seeking comfort with her sister, Mathilda, and young niece, Ruth. But old secrets surface, and when Mathilda drowns, Amanda assumes responsibility for Ruth with a frightening intensity.

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  • "In March 1919, nurse Amanda Starkey, seeking refuge, returns to her family home to live with her younger sister Mathilda and Mathilda's three-year-old child, Ruth. Within a year, Mathilda is dead and Amanda is raising Ruth as her own. But both Amanda and Ruth are hiding memories of the night Mathilda died. Bestseller 2000."
  • "Fleeing the horrors of nursing during the Great War, Amanda Starkey retreats to the family farm, seeking comfort with her sister, Mathilda, and young niece, Ruth. But old secrets surface, and when Mathilda drowns, Amanda assumes responsibility for Ruth with a frightening intensity."@en
  • "A story about a young lady named Amanda, her sister Mathilda, and her daughter Ruth, and their lives and the people who interfere with them just after World War I in a small American town."@en
  • "One winter's night a woman, Mattie, drowns. When Mattie's husband returns from fighting in World War I, he finds his daughter being raised by her prickly, obsessive aunt, Amanda. What really happened to Mattie? The truth is both dramatic and moving."@en
  • "In March 1919, nurse Amanda Starkey, seeking refuge, returns to her family home to live with her younger sister Mathilda and Mathilda's three-year-old child, Ruth. Within a year, Mathilda is dead and Amanda is raising Ruth as her own. But both Amanda and Ruth are hiding memories of the night Mathilda dies. Bestseller 2000."
  • "In March 1919, nurse Amanda Starkey, seeking refuge, returns to her family home to live with her younger sister Mathilda and Mathilda's three-year-old child, Ruth. Within a year, Mathilda is dead and Amanda is raising Ruth as her own. But both Amanda and Ruth are hiding memories of the night Mathilda died."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en

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  • "Drowning Ruth"
  • "Drowning Ruth"@en
  • "Drowning Ruth [book on cassette]"@en
  • "Drowning Ruth [a novel]"@en

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