Screen LibraryPeculiar ground : a novel /
"It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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"It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders--migrants fleeing the plague--find no mercy. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous we |
| Item Description: | "Originally published in Great Britain in 2017 by 4th Estate."--Title page verso. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 446 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: |
9780062684196 0062684191 |
| Index Number: | PR6108 |
| CLC: | I561.45 |
| Call Number: | I561.45/H893-1 |