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Book Description
THE FACTS OF LIFE tells the story of an extraordinary family of seven sisters living in Coventry during the second world war. Presided over by an indomitable matriach the sisters live out a tangled and fraught life that takes them through the blitz, war work and on into the hopeful postwar years aContinue
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thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010
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The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life, according to the Vine family, around whom Joyce's latest novel is centered, are not the facts as we understand them. They are the facts of a different world from ours, a world where a knock on the door can mean a death, and a night ... (read full critics)
bookotron published on Tue, 14 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Hardcover 272 Pages
- ISBN-10: 057507230X
- ISBN-13: 9780575072305
- Publisher: Gollancz
- Pub date: Jan 01, 2003
- Dimensions: 230 mm x 160 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and eBook
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| ISBN | Edition | List | Sale | Seller |
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| 9780575072305 | Hardcover | $20.17 | -- | The Book Depository |
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The Best Reviews: Graham Joyce, The Facts of Life
"Memorable storytelling" Everyone who lived through the War still feels its effects though Hitler and the Nazi machine have been dead for a few years. In Coventry, Mrs. Martha Vine is the hub of eight spoke-families consisting of seven daughters, sev ... (read full critics)