Keeping the House

Keeping the House
ISBN-10
081297784X
ISBN-13
9780812977844
Category
Fiction
Pages
543
Language
English
Published
2008-07
Publisher
Random House Incorporated
Author
Ellen Baker

Description

Lonely, restless, and bored with her life as a housewife in 1950s Pine Rapids, Wisconsin, Dolly Magnuson becomes fascinated by the abandoned grand old house on the hill overlooking the town and sets out to unravel the dark secrets of the family that had once owned it. A first novel. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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