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The Invention of Wings
- Author
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrator
- Adepero Oduye, Jenna Lamia
- Publisher
- Headline
- Publish Date
- 7 January 2014
- Run Time
- 13 hours 41 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethics and moral philosophy, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Social and ethical issues
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
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The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.
From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.
Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ...
A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.
(P)2014 Headline Digital
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Details
- Author
- Sue Monk Kidd
- Narrator
- Adepero Oduye, Jenna Lamia
- Duration
- 13 hours 41 minutes
- Release Date
- 7 January 2014
- ISBN
- 9781472215239
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Headline
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery, Social discrimination and social justice, Ethics and moral philosophy, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Social and ethical issues
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to pre-order now. The No. 1 New York Times bestseller.From the celebrated author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees comes an extraordinary novel about two exceptional women.Sarah Grimké is the middle daughter. The one her mother calls difficult and her father calls remarkable. On Sarah's eleventh birthday, Hetty 'Handful' Grimke is taken from the slave quarters she shares with her mother, wrapped in lavender ribbons, and presented to Sarah as a gift. Sarah knows what she does next will unleash a world of trouble. She also knows that she cannot accept. And so, indeed, the trouble begins ... A powerful, sweeping novel, inspired by real events, and set in the American Deep South in the nineteenth century, THE INVENTION OF WINGS evokes a world of shocking contrasts, of beauty and ugliness, of righteous people living daily with cruelty they fail to recognise; and celebrates the power of friendship and sisterhood against all the odds.(P)2014 Headline Digital
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