The probable future
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- ISBN: 9780345478405 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0345478401 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
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336 p. ; 21 cm. - Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2004.
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Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. New York : Random House Publishing Group, 2004. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1270 KB). |
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Subject: | Women -- Massachusetts -- Fiction Mothers and daughters -- Fiction Grandmothers -- Fiction Clairvoyants -- Fiction Murder -- Fiction New England -- Fiction Massachusetts -- Fiction |
Genre: | Suspense fiction. Electronic books. |
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In this bewitching tale, three living generations of Sparrow women confront their strange and challenging heritage. It all begins in 1697 when a strange girl who can't feel physical pain walks out of the woods surrounding the tiny settlement of Unity, and unnerves the witch-fearing townsfolk. Each of her descendents, all female and all born in the volatile month of March, possesses a similarly troublesome gift. Elinor can recognize a liar at 100 paces, although her husband still betrays her. Jenny, her daughter, dreams other people's dreams. And her daughter, Stella, can see people's deaths, a burden that at first wreaks havoc when her feckless father is accused of a murder she foresees but later becomes a boon.