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Reviewed on March 1, 2025 | Fiction
DEBUT Purvis's intriguing debut novel, set in an English village along the Thames River in the 18th century, plays with notions of societal expectations of women, misogyny, and the power of suggestion. During a summer plagued by monstrous heat and drought, the five Mansfield sisters and their grandfather, still mourning the death of the girls' grandmother, come under the scrutiny of t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
