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| Title: | Hardscratch Row
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| Author: | Anne Cameron |
| ISBN: | 1550172905 : 9781550172904 |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 378 |
| Weight: | .598 Kg. |
| Published: | Harbour Publishing - October 2002 |
| List Price: | 16.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Modern fiction |
Of the six grown-up siblings at the heart of the story, one lives with children she and her husband produced; one has children by more than one father, including three brothers she calls the Three Wise Men; and one has a foster child whose short past is too unbearable to contemplate. The others don't have families -- unless you count the eccentric brother who takes on the bad-girl niece because she sees the same ghosts he does, or the sister and her woman lover who end up co-parenting a troubled little boy, or the other sister who mothers some of her kids' half-siblings when their 'real' mother takes off without warning. And just to keep everyone on their toes, there are regular but unpredictable appearances by the squeyanx, a character related to no one and to everyone, part ghost, part trickster, part Greek chorus, who is visible only to those who want to see.
