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Author: Rose TremainPaperbackEducated only to be a wife and mother, over weight and fifty Ruby Constad has reached watershed in her life. After a stroke that has left him paralysed her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home; her children have grown-up and left home. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realises.ISBN: 9780099284079Publisher: Vintage
Author: Rose TremainPaperbackEducated only to be a wife and mother, over weight and fifty Ruby Constad has reached watershed in her life. After a stroke that has left him paralysed her husband, Leon, lies in a nursing home; her children have grown-up and left home. In her anguish Ruby appeals for help to a half-remembered figure from her colonial Indian girlhood - Sister Benedicta. Gradually the events leading up to Leon's stroke are revealed and a woman emerges whose capacity to love, hope and understand are far greater than she realises.ISBN: 9780099284079Publisher: Vintage
Rose Tremain
Rose Tremain's best-selling novels have won many awards, including the Orange Prize (The Road Home), the Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music & Silence), the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
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