| The Kitchen House Contributor(s): Grissom, Kathleen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594136440 ISBN-13: 9781594136443 Publisher: Large Print Press OUR PRICE: $14.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Kennebec Large Print Superior Collection |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (1.60 lbs) 624 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Lavinia, a seven-year-old Irish orphan with no memory of her past, arrives on a tobacco plantation where she is put to work as an indentured servant. Placed with the slaves in the kitchen house under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her new adopted family, even though she is forever set apart from them by her white skin. As Lavinia is slowly accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles an opium addiction, she finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When Lavinia marries the master's troubled son and takes on the role of mistress, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare and lives are put at risk. The Kitchen House is a tragic story of page-turning suspense, exploring the meaning of family, where love and loyalty prevail.. |