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Haunted Houses

This novel chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friendship and the ties between daughters and parents, by recording the events in the lives of Grace, Emily and Jane, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s in urban middle-class families.

Genre
literary fiction
Setting
1980s
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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