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Growing up on the thriving plantation called The Meadows, Lillian Booth cherishes the brightest, happiest dreams....
Lillian's world is full of grand parties, of sunshine and promises, as thrilling as the fairy tales Mama spins for her and her little sister, Eugenia. No one, not even her cold, stern Papa and her Bible spouting sister Emily, can crush her spirits -- until the day Emily reveals the shattering secret at Lillian's birth, a secret Mama sadly cannot deny.
Still Lillian refuses to believe Emily's hateful claim that she is evil, a curse...even when sweet, gentle Eugenia loses her fragile hold on life, and Mama retreats further into her fantasies. But when tragedy befalls her best friend, the one boy whose tender heart mirrors her own, Lillian comes to believe Emily's grim words. Meekly, she endures her penance, finding a strange solace in the endless repetition of prayers in a room stripped of all comforts.
Lillian's heart is torn anew when, in a drunken haze, Papa subjects her to the most brutal degradation. Then Papa loses The Meadows in a card game, and Lillian is faced with a new and terrifying prospect. Arrogant, handsome playboy Bill Cutler will return the plantation -- if Lillian will marry him! Now Lillian must leave her girlhood home behind, and make a bold new beginning as the mistress of a hotel called Cutler's Cove...
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V.C. Andrews, Domestic, Fiction, Family, Planter class, Cystic fibrosis, Great Depression, Menstruation, Smallpox, Depression, Cancer, Fiction, horror, Cutler family (fictitious characters), fiction, Cutler's cove (imaginary place), fiction, Large type books, Cutler family (Fictitious characters), Families, collectionid:vcaclPeople
Cutler family (Fictitious characters), Cutler family, Lillian Booth, Jed Booth, Georgia Booth, Emily Booth, Eugenia Booth, Niles Thompson, Cinderella, Charlotte Booth, Bill Cutler, Randolph CutlerTimes
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Zwart is de nacht
2007, De Kern
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in Dutch
- Vijfde druk, eerste in deze uitvoering
9032510967 9789032510961
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Darkest Hour
2002, Pocket Books
paperback
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- 2002 Pocket Books edition (2)
141651192X 9781416511922
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Avant l'aurore
1995-05, France Loisirs
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- Une édition du Club Loisirs
272428450X 9782724284508
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Avant l'aurore
1995-05, France Loisirs
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- Edition du Club France Loisirs
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Darkest Hour
1993-06, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 1st Pocket Books paperback printing (1)
0671759329 9780671759322
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Darkest Hour
1993-06, Pocket Books
Mass Market Paperback
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