Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helen's story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, whose greatest gift to Helen was a garden, a magical moonlit dance of crystal and gold and silver faeries.
The stories of three girls verging on the precipice of womanhood intertwine. Each girl is a victim to brutality, and each was somehow dragged down into servitude and humiliation, yet each life is briefly illuminated by flashes of magic along her journey. The world is full of magic--not that witching magic of sorcery and spells, but the...
Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helen's story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, who...
Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helen's story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, whose greatest gift to Helen was a garden, a magical moonlit dance of crystal and gold and silver faeries.
The stories of three girls verging on the precipice of womanhood intertwine. Each girl is a victim to brutality, and each was somehow dragged down into servitude and humiliation, yet each life is briefly illuminated by flashes of magic along her journey. The world is full of magic--not that witching magic of sorcery and spells, but the...
Great-Aunt Chris had begun Helen's story, but her death left Helen alone to scribble and scratch out a life now deprived of her deepest friend, who...