The House on Fortune Street
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780594016762 (0594016762)
Publish date: May 5th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
I read this in 2 days. I had read the first couple sentences of the book flap before I checked it out at the library. Then when I started reading, I was confused because the main character was a man whereas it was supposed to be mainly about the relationship between two women. It turns out the story...
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