The true and splendid history of the Harristown sisters
Lovric, Michelle2015
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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 the sisters out of poverty, through the dance halls of Ireland to the salons of Dublin and the palazzi of Venice.
Main title:
The true and splendid history of the Harristown sisters / Michelle Lovric.
Author:
Lovric, Michelle, author
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2015.London : Bloomsbury, 2015.
Collation:
468 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2014.
ISBN:
9781408833445 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
1742718