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Married at 16 to a man 20 years her senior who spoke no English, this is the author's own story of her years on a sugar plantation in Venezuela. Living in primitive conditions, St Aubin de Teran ended up virtually running the plantation, in a place unchanged in more than a century.
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She writes with extraordinary vividness and clarity - she faces reality with a courage and skill that left me not knowing which to admire more: her gift as a writer or that she had the guts to carve out a place for herself in such an unforgiving world. (INDEPENDENT)
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A remarkable woman, her life story makes for compulsive reading. (THE TIMES)
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Powerfully engrossing (OBSERVER)
Astonishing (ELLE)
A remarkable woman, her life story makes for compulsive reading. (THE TIMES)
Now in paperback, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran's remarkable and haunting memoir of her years on a vast sugar plantation, deep in Venezuela. 'Astonishing' - Elle
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1860492770
- ISBN 13 9781860492778
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages342
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