Orange Prize and Pulitzer Prizewinning Carol Shields tender, funny and wonderfully insightful portrait of two sisters struggling to rediscover themselves amidst the perplexing swirl of family life. Judith is a biographer whose life is subsumed by others her eccentric husband, her secretive children and the Victorian novelist who is her subject. Her sister Charleen is a single mother and lapsed poet. While Judith analyses the minutiae of lives past and present, Charleen battles her own past ghosts and wonders desperately what her life has been about. As their mothers wedding approaches, both sisters must come to terms with the paths they have chosen. Originally published as two companion novels Small Ceremonies and The Box Garden.

Binding: Paperback;416 pages; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; Classification: FA; Weight: 454 g; Dimensions: 128 x 204 x 28

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