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Three girls meet in boarding school and promise to remain friends. They grow into adulthood and meet again at a crucial moment in their lives. Love,revenge,old money,secrets and a mad man.
It was unlikely they would ever meet. Yet fate brought them together first as naïve schoolgirls . . . then as complicated women facing events that would alter the shape of their lives forever.br />
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NATALIE– betrayed by her first love and consoling herself with the richest husband in America who is both powerful and dangerous.br />
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SARA – buried her ambitions until a blazing passion reminds her of all she has given up. Her suburban security is about to be shattered by a new job and a passionate affair.br />
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MIRANDA – exotically beautiful, | |  | | Daughters
Set in a small village near Jerusalem from 1880-1950,Daughters follows the lives of three generations of the Mishwe family through two world wars, three governments,heartbreak, family secrets and tradition shattering intrusion.
"No fiction that I have read has illuminated the nation that was Palestine through the medium of the family saga … as does this absorbing novel. Like a landscape painter, Baehr skillfully paints the background and it becomes a palpable experience. I for one long to know what has happened to the village and its families in the last forty years." Washington Post Book World
This long epic novel focuses on a Christian family, the Mishwes whose lives had been bound by tradition until the intrusion of western idiology and temptations create emotional pulls that cannot be |
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