Daughters of the House

by Michèle Roberts

Book Overview

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Secrets and lies linger in the very walls of the solid old Normandy house where Ther?se and Leonie, French and English cousins, grow up after the war. Intrigued by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312420382
• ISBN13: 9780312420383
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

provincial French Catholics

The English writer Michèle Roberts wrote Daughters of the House. The novel is a narrative about provincial French Catholics in post-WWII Normandy and thirty years later. Cousins Thérèse and Léonie are the protagonists within the familial and village setting. The reader enters the intimacy of the girls' lives. We poach mackerel in the kitchen, experience sexual awakening, and celebrate the Virgin Mother in a nocturnal forest. Suspense is carried by random bits concerning a tragedy in the village's history. A further twist is the possibility of a secrecy in the cousins' background. The girls disentangle the web of events the years covered over.