Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles.
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The fifth novel in the bestselling Outlander series, as seen on Amazon Prime.
1771: the Colony of North Carolina
The acres & acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old antebellum house, all gone. & so is the woman who gave it to him.
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A classic tale from Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, of a family torn apart by the arrival of Ben, their feral fifth child.
‘ Listening to the laughter, the sounds of children playing, Harriet & David would reach for each other’s h&, & smile, & breathe happiness.’
Four children, a beautiful old house, the love of relatives & friends – Harriet & David Lovatt’s life is a glorious hymn to domestic bliss & old-fashioned family values. But when their fifth child is born, a sickly & implacable shadow is cast over this tender idyll. Large & ugly, violent & uncontrollable, the infant Ben, ‘full of cold dislike’, tears at Harriet’s breast. Struggling to care for her new-born child, faced with a darkness & a strange defiance she has never known before, Harriet is deeply afraid of what, exactly, she has brought into the world...