The Deep Blue Sea for Beginners
Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time.Pell...
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Years ago, Lyra Davis fled the people she loved most, unable to reconcile the expectations of her wealthy family with the longings of her own wild heart. Now she lives quietly among a community of expatriates on the isle of Capri, slowly, carefully learning to live fully for the first time.Pell Davis, wise beyond her sixteen years, and her younger sister Lucy still long for the mother who ran away from them when they were children. Pell thinks she knows why Lyra left. Now she will travel across an ocean to find the mother she remembers and learn the deeper truths Lyra has never been able to reveal.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780553589788 (0553589784)
Publish date: September 28th 2010
Publisher: Bantam
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English
Series: Newport, Rhode Island (#2)
A soap opera of the worst kind in book format. Every character is suffering terrible tragedies, dead bodies pile in their past, deceptions are exposed, emotions are exploding, and everyone is filthy rich. I didn’t like this novel. It’s written very well – this author is a master of beautiful prose –...
(http://labirinto-livros.blogspot.pt/2012/09/o-verao-das-nossas-vidas.html)A família pode ser um organismo muito frágil sem darmos por isso...Lyra abandonou as suas duas filhas e o seu marido há uma década. Atrás dela, deixa um rasto de destruição. As filhas, Pell e Lucy, não conseguem lidar com a p...