| Edition |
Large print edition. |
| Description |
391 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
1871, Ashwell, Massachusetts. At the farm of Samuel Hood and his daughter, Caroline, a mysterious flock of red birds descends. Samuel takes the birds' appearance as an omen that the time is ripe for his newest venture. He will start a school for young women, guiding their intellectual development as he has so carefully guided his daughter's. It's not long before the students begin to manifest bizarre symptoms: rashes, fits, headaches, verbal tics, night wanderings. The school turns to the ministering of a physician, but as the girls' conditions worsen long-buried secrets emerge, and Caroline must confront the all-male, all-knowing authorities around her, the ones who insist the voices of the sufferers are unreliable. |
| Subject |
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction.
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Girls' schools -- Fiction.
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Large type books.
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Massachusetts -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781643586243 (large print : hardback) |
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1643586246 (large print : hardback) |
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