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Tartelin, a young art student, takes a job on a desolate, mostly uninhabited island just off the east coast of England after her adoptive mother dies. Tartelin's employer, elderly Marianne Stourbridge, lives on the island in the creaking ruins of her family home, without modern amenities. The island was requisitioned by the British army during World War II, and Marianne has only recently returned to her childhood h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More