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Easy peasy

The past haunts the present as a woman struggles to liberate herself from her family’s dark history This masterfully written novel plumbs the mysteries of the female psyche in a tale of buried family secrets and obsessive love. Zelda is getting ready for a date with her older lover, Foxy, whom she’s sure is about to dump her, when the call comes. Zelda’s father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams in the night. A POW in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, Ralph Dawkins was haunted by a nightmare: the guilty secret he harbored. Zelda’s journey into the past brings back troubling questions that were never answered. Why did her father seem to prefer Vassily Pudilchuck, a friendless and disfigured neighborhood boy, to Zelda and her sister, Hazel? How did Vassily end up brutally assaulted? Zelda’s own jealousies and bitter sibling rivalry have cast a long shadow across her present life. A novel about the things that remain unspoken, Easy Peasy is a stunning tale of love and forgiveness in the face of dark and unsettling truth.

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  • "After her father hangs himself, Griselda tries to learn his past. What happened in that Japanese camp where he was a British prisoner in World War II? Why the nightmares which sent him screaming?"
  • "Au moment où sa relation avec Foxy chancelle, Zelda apprend le suicide de son père. Les souvenirs d'enfance enfouis remontent à la surface au cours d'une nuit d'insomnie. Derrière une enfance lisse et sereine : les jalousies entre soeurs, les tromperies d'adultes, les cruautés enfantines, les barbaries de la guerre..."
  • "The past haunts the present as a woman struggles to liberate herself from her family’s dark history This masterfully written novel plumbs the mysteries of the female psyche in a tale of buried family secrets and obsessive love. Zelda is getting ready for a date with her older lover, Foxy, whom she’s sure is about to dump her, when the call comes. Zelda’s father has hanged himself. His suicide brings back terrifying childhood memories of screams in the night. A POW in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, Ralph Dawkins was haunted by a nightmare: the guilty secret he harbored. Zelda’s journey into the past brings back troubling questions that were never answered. Why did her father seem to prefer Vassily Pudilchuck, a friendless and disfigured neighborhood boy, to Zelda and her sister, Hazel? How did Vassily end up brutally assaulted? Zelda’s own jealousies and bitter sibling rivalry have cast a long shadow across her present life. A novel about the things that remain unspoken, Easy Peasy is a stunning tale of love and forgiveness in the face of dark and unsettling truth."@en

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  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Easy peasy"@en
  • "Easy peasy"
  • "Fastoche"
  • "Easy Peasy"
  • "Fastoche : roman"
  • "Easy Peasy : A Novel"@en
  • "Enocha paichnidia"
  • "Pærelet : roman"@da

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