The True And Splendid Hidstory Of The Harristown Sisters

Lovric Michelle

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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 465 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Tale Of Exploitation And Celebrity, Illegitimacy And Sibling Rivalry, Love Triangles And Financial Skullduggery, Of Death And Devilry

Publishers Description: It is the age of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, when Europe burns with a passion for long-flowing locks. And when seven sisters, born into fatherless poverty in Ireland, grow up with hair cascading down their backs, to their ankles, and beyond, men are not slow to recognise their potential.It begins with a singing and dancing septet, with Irish jigs kicked out in dusty church halls. But it is not the sisters’ singing or their dancing that fills the seats: it is the torrents of hair they let loose at the end of each show. And their hair will take dark-hearted Darcy, bickering twins Berenice and Enda, plain Pertilly, gentle Oona, wild Ida and fearful, flame-haired Manticory – the inimitable narrator of their on-and-off stage adventures – out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland, to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice. It will bring some of them love and each of them loss. For their past trails behind the sisters like the tresses on their heads, and their fame and fortune will come at a terrible price...

ISBN: 9781408833421

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465 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. A Tale Of Exploitation And Celebrity, Illegitimacy And Sibling Rivalry, Love Triangles And Financial Skullduggery, Of Death And Devilry

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