Built on Sand

Built on Sand

S R Kay

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Editorial:
1889 Books
Año de edición:
2024
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9781915045225
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Elsie has two feet in the 20th century. Smith has one foot in the 19th. Their marriage, founded on physical attraction, is built on sand as all around them the earth of Europe also starts to quake. Prised apart by emotional conflict and the loss of two children they are flung apart by the most violent physical conflict in human history. The question is whether they can survive, together or at all.  

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