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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Emma Gregory. |
| Summary |
Finalist for the Desmond Elliott Prize A "superb debut" novel-based on the story of the author's grandmother-following an aristocratic woman who abandons her family and her money in search of a life she can claim as her own. (*The Guardian) Enid Campbell, granddaughter of a duke, grew up surrounded by servants, wanting for nothing except love. But when her brother died in the First World War, a new heir was needed, and it was up to Enid to provide it. A troubled marriage and three children soon followed. Broken by postpartum depression, overwhelmed by motherhood and a loveless marriage, Enid made the shocking decision to abandon her family, thereby starting a chain of events-a kidnap, a court case, and selling her son to her sister for £500-that reverberated through the generations. Interweaving one significant day in 1964, when it seems the family will reunite for one last time, with a decade during the interwar period, A Perfect Explanation explores the perils of aristocratic privilege, where inheritance is everything and happiness is hard won. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Campbell, Enid, 1892-1964 -- Fiction.
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Argyllshire (Scotland) -- Fiction.
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Literature.
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| Genre |
Biographical fiction.
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| Added Author |
Gregory, Emma.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9780358172277 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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0358172276 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14796054 |
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