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The sister

The tale of two sisters, Ginny and Vivian, reunited after a 40 year estrangement. Their father was a lepidopterist who was obsessed with his work, neglecting the girls and their mother who became an alcoholic with violent mood swings. Now, so many years later, the sisters are drawn back into this stormy world of their childhood. But Ginny is ever observant of the present, wondering why her sister has returned, keeping track of her every move, refusing to accept Vivian's version of their past.

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  • "Behaviour of moths"
  • "Behaviour of moths"@it

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  • "From her lookout in the crumbling mansion that was her childhood home, Ginny watches and waits for her younger sister to arrive. Vivien has not set foot in the house since she left nearly fifty years ago; the reclusive Ginny has rarely ventured out, retreating into the precise routines that define her days, carrying on her fathers solitary work studying moths. as they relive their past they realize their recollections differ in essential and unsettling ways."
  • "Dans une atmosphère oppressante, les retrouvailles dans un manoir victorien de deux soeurs, Ginny et Vivi, seront l'objet du drame qui ira jusqu'à déchirer leur famille. Leurs chemins respectifs se sépareront à l'occasion du départ de Vivi pour Londres, au désespoir de leur mère. Premier roman."
  • "The tale of two sisters, Ginny and Vivian, reunited after a 40 year estrangement. Their father was a lepidopterist who was obsessed with his work, neglecting the girls and their mother who became an alcoholic with violent mood swings. Now, so many years later, the sisters are drawn back into this stormy world of their childhood. But Ginny is ever observant of the present, wondering why her sister has returned, keeping track of her every move, refusing to accept Vivian's version of their past."
  • "The tale of two sisters, Ginny and Vivian, reunited after a 40 year estrangement. Their father was a lepidopterist who was obsessed with his work, neglecting the girls and their mother who became an alcoholic with violent mood swings. Now, so many years later, the sisters are drawn back into this stormy world of their childhood. But Ginny is ever observant of the present, wondering why her sister has returned, keeping track of her every move, refusing to accept Vivian's version of their past."@en
  • "A wandering sister returns home to her reclusive moth-expert sister and the secrets they revisit threaten Ginny's carefully-ordered world."
  • "From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return. Vivien has not stepped foot in the mansion since she was a child; Ginny has rarely left. The remembrance of their youth, of loss and of old rivaliries plays across Ginny's mind. Why is Vivi coming home?"
  • "GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Restricted for use by people with print disabilities. From her lookout on the first floor, Ginny watches and waits for her adored younger sister to return to the crumbling mansion that was once their idyllic childhood home. Vivien has not stepped foot in the house since she left, forty seven years ago; Ginny, the reclusive lepidopterist, has rarely ventured outside it. The remembrance of their youth, of loss, and of old rivalries plays across Ginny's mind. Why is Vivi coming home?"
  • "The haunting stories of two sisters , their troubling past and the terrible secrets they each want to stay buried."
  • "Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets."
  • "Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and hidden family secrets."@en

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  • "Large type books"
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Thrillery (romány)"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Thrillers (novels)"
  • "Electronic books"
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  • "English fiction"
  • "Anglické romány"

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  • "The Sister"
  • "Nachtvlinders"
  • "The sister"
  • "The sister"@en
  • "The sister : [a novel]"
  • "Chování nočních motýlů"
  • "The behaviour of moths"@en
  • "The behaviour of moths"
  • "Le temps des métamorphoses"
  • "A dança das borboletas"
  • "The sister a novel"
  • "The sister : a novel"
  • "The sister : a novel"@en
  • "Hermanas"
  • "Hermanas"@es
  • "La danza delle falene"
  • "La danza delle falene"@it
  • "The Behaviour of Moths"@en

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