Harnessing Peacocks

Mary Wesley
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Living happily alone in a seaside town in Cornwall, lovely Hebe supports her son at an expensive boarding school by cooking and discreetly making love for profit, until the unexpected happens
Genres: FictionBritish LiteratureRomance20th CenturyWomensBook ClubLiterary FictionContemporaryModernClassics
288 Pages

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