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The fox in the attic great river regional library overdrive. At once a novel of ideas and an exploration of the dark spaces of the heart, it is a book in which the past returns in all its original uncertainty and strangenessmore. The fox in the attic, saint leonards, east sussex, united kingdom. Richard hughes augusten is a young man from an aristocratic family, struggling to make sense of a world devastated by the great war. Starting off in the beautifully described welsh countryside, we meet the 1920s aristocratic family of augustibne.
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The fox in the attic by hughes richard, first edition abebooks. Recording the moment when germany teetered on the brink of nazism the pause before the thunderous fall hughes prose captures both the full weight of inevitability, and the full weight of first love. Only the steady creaking of a flight of swans disturbed the silence, labouring low overhead with outstretched necks towards the sea. A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, the fox in the attic is. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. While its immediate purpose is to retrace the history of europe between wars, and to parallel that with personal.
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