Description
| Product ID: | 9780099501688 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Harnessing Peacocks |
| Authors: | Author: Mary Wesley |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Hebe has harnessed her two great talents - cooking and making love - to make a living for herself, but when the separate strands of her life become intangled the even tenor of her days is threatened, and her world changes forever. Hebe sits in the darkness and listens to her hypocritical grandparents and her older siblings discuss how her unexpected pregnancy must be terminated to avoid the shame it will bring. Determined to raise her child, she flees into the night with only her mother''s jewellery to support her. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2007-05-03 |
