Sleep, Pale Sister
Author: Joanne Harris
Sleep, Pale Sister, a powerful, atmospheric and blackly gothic evocation of Victorian artistic life, was originally published before Joanne Harris achieved worldwide recognition with Chocolat.,,Henry Chester, a domineering and puritanical Victorian artist, is in search of the perfect model. In nine-year-old Effie he finds her.,,Ten years later, lovely, childlike and sedated, E….Read More
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