The Little Shadows
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780091944278 (0091944279)
Publish date: February 2nd 2012
Publisher: Hutchinson
Pages no: 530
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
Contemporary,
Music,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
The year is 1912 and after the death of their father and baby brother the three Avery sisters, Aurora, Clover and Bella hit the road with their mother to start their career as vaudeville stars.Flora Avery, the girls’ mother, worked in vaudeville before she married their father and gratefully uses co...
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