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Peculiar ground : a novel / Lucy Hughes-Hallett.
It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. With poignancy and grace, Lucy Hughes-Hallett illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history - and by one patch of peculiar ground.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062684196
- Physical Description: xi, 446 pages : map ; 24 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in 2017. |
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| Subject: | Manors > England > Fiction. Country homes > England > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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- 10 of 10 copies available at Sitka.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Burns Lake Public Library. (Show preferred library)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Burns Lake Public Library | AF HUG (Text) | 35198000649963 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC HUG (Text) | 35146002058691 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kimberley Public Library | F HUG (Text) | 35137001011153 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nelson Public Library | F HUG (Text) | 3514830027799 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Pemberton and District Public Library | F HUG (Text) | 31894000509777 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC HUG (Text) | 33123009575466 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Terrace Public Library | HUG (Text) | 35151001055490 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Tumbler Ridge Public Library | AF HUGHE (Text) | TRL23174 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | HUG (Text) | 33923005926948 | Historical | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | HUG (Text) | 33923005926955 | Historical | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues. Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood's walls. With poignancy and grace, Lucy Hughes-Hallett illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history - and by one patch of peculiar ground.
