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The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.

The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.
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ISBN 9781432891237
Name Beard, Janet author.
Title The ballad of Laurel Springs / Janet Beard.
Edition Large print edition.
Published ©2021
Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, 2021.
Description 487 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary Ten-year-old Grace is in search of a subject for her fifth-grade history project when she learns that her four times-great grandfather once stabbed his lover to death. His grisly act was memorialised in a murder ballad, her aunt tells her, so it must be true. But the lessons of that revelation - to be careful of men, and desire - are not just Grace's to learn. Her family's tangled past is part of a dark legacy in which the lives of generations of women are affected by the violence immortalised in folksongs like 'Knoxville Girl' and 'Pretty Polly' reminding them always to know their place - or risk the wages of sin. Janet Beard's stirring novel, informed by her love of these haunting ballads, vividly imagines these women, defined by the secrets they keep, the surprises they uncover and the lurking sense of menace that follows them throughout their lives. With the same rich sense of place as Bloodroot or Serena, The Ballad of Laurel Springs is an unforgettable portrait of women fighting to make a safe place in the world for themselves and the people they love.
Subjects Family secrets -- Fiction
Abused women -- Fiction
Ballads -- Fiction
Murder -- Fiction
Women -- Violence against -- Fiction
Adultery -- Fiction
Rape -- Fiction
Genre Large type books
Historical fiction
Domestic fiction
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