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An outsider raised in an orphanage, GeneviFve lives a reclusive existence as maid to a widowed storyteller, until she escapes her village home to work for a captivating poet, who uses words to captivate the women around him, including GeneviFve, but she soon discovers that his stories can conceal dangerous secrets. By the author of Daughters of the House. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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An orphan enchanted by stories and the incantatory power of words, Genevieve lives an isolated existence as a maid to the widow Patin in a village cafe on the Normandy coast in the early 20th century. Forced to flee the village, she comes under the spell of a charismatic spinner of words, a poet who captivates every woman around him -- his mother, his mistress, his niece, his niece's governess, and eventually, his new maid, who soon begins to spin a story of her own.
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