Property Cover:Paperback Vanessa's view of her own

Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change

and music mornings they used to share

Not even their infuriating stepsiblings

a community touchstone

Property Cover:Paperback Vanessa's view of her ownWINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a fresh, unsentimental look at what slave owning does to (and for) one's interior life. The writingso prised and clean limbedis a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband.