The Girl in a Swing
- ISBN-10
- 0394510496
- ISBN-13
- 9780394510491
- Category
- Ceramics
- Pages
- 339
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1980
- Publisher
- Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
- Author
- Richard Adams
Description
A quiet English bachelor falls headlong in love with and impulsively marries a stunningly beautiful young German woman and only slowly discovers the nature of the darkness and doom she carries with her
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