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Author Harris, Ruth Elwin.

Title Gwen's story / Ruth Elwin Harris.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Eureka Young Adult Fiction  YA Har V.4    ---  Available
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 284 p. ; 20 cm.
Series Sisters of the Quantock Hills
Harris, Ruth Elwin. Sisters of the Quantock Hills.
Note Originally published under title: Beyond the orchid house. London : Julia MacRae Books, 1994.
Summary Reclusive illustrator and gardener Gwen Purcell's devotion to her nephew and new-found love of orchids draw her from her family's country home to London's gardens and shops and, as Hitler is gaining power, to the German Alps.
Subject Families -- England -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Gardeners -- Fiction.
Orchids -- Fiction.
Artists -- Fiction.
Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction.
Germany -- History -- 1933-1945 -- Fiction.
ISBN 0763617059 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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