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The dinner party : a novel / Viola van de Sandt.
Van Pelt - New Book Display PS3619.A564 D5 2025
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van de Sandt, Viola, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parties--Fiction.
- Parties.
- Abused women--Fiction.
- Abused women.
- Psychic trauma--Fiction.
- Psychic trauma.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Little Brown & Company, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Franca left the Netherlands behind to start her new life in England with Andrew. Andrew, whose parents lived in South Kensington but had a flat their son could “borrow” nearby. Andrew, an old-fashioned British gentleman who encourages her not to work but to instead focus on her writing. Andrew who suggests a dinner party with his colleagues to celebrate their big upcoming launch. A dinner party that Franca must plan and shop and cook and clean for. A dinner party during a heatwave when the fridge breaks, alcohol replaces water, and an unexpected guest joins their ranks, upending the careful balance between everything Franca once was and now is…"--Amazon.com
- ISBN:
- 9780316593847
- 0316593842
- OCLC:
- 1534890777
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