The Sisters of Sea View YA_Gift_Guide resonant voice

resonant voice

Competing visions of birth – ‘natural’ versus ‘medical’ – mean women can be criticised whatever happens

memorization makes a poem part of our inner lives

and relentlessly compelling read

all but impervious to the forces of change

The Sisters of Sea View YA_Gift_Guide resonant voiceSome guests have come for a holiday, others for hidden reasons of their own . . . When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers and her genteel sisters fear they will be forced to sell the house and separate to earn livelihoods as governesses or companions. Determined to stay together, Sarah convinces them to open their seaside home to guests to make ends meet and provide for their ailing mother. Instead of the elderly invalids