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"Set in a Maltese immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales, in the 1960s and peopled with sharp-edged, luminously drawn characters, The Hiding Place is the story of Frankie Gauci, his wife, Mary and their six daughters. It chronicles in graceful language Frankie's unforgivable betrayal: gambling away his family's livelihood and eventually the family itself.".
"The Gaucis' story is seen through the eyes of Dolores, the youngest daughter and, in her father's estimation, the embodiment of bad luck, condemned to bear the mark of a family that is rapidly singeing at the edges.
With a lyricism that belies the horrors she so often recounts ("children burnt and children bartered: someone must be to blame"), Dolores presents an unsparing portrayal of the fear and hopelessness of childhood amid grim poverty and neglect, of children growing up without safety nets and on sunken foundations."--BOOK JACKET.
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Poor families, Girls, Fiction, Gamblers, Maltese, Domestic fiction, Fiction, general, Wales, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, family life, Family relationships, Social life and customs, Gamblers -- Family relationships -- Fiction, Maltese -- Wales -- Cardiff -- Social life and customs -- Fiction, Gamblers -- Family relationships, Wales -- Cardiff, Nineteen sixtiesPlaces
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The Hiding Place: Picador Classic [Paperback] [Feb 23, 2017] Trezza Azzopardi
Feb 23, 2017, PICADOR, Pan Macmillan UK
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1509827552 9781509827558
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The hiding place
2001, Atlantic Monthly Press, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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0871138158 9780871138156
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xii, 284 pages ; 20 cm
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