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Still keeping it at pure five stars after finishing the re-read of the revised and expanded second edition published by Ylva. This great book is now even better.
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Jun 29, 2012 rated it it was amazing
I really loved this story which is unusually because I’m not a huge fan of historical era type stories, but I loved the characters Luke and Nora and I find myself wanting to re-read the story. I can count on one hand the stories I’ve wanted to read again.
The story takes place in the 1850’s and Luke is a woman passing as a man in part because the options for a single woman are get married and essentially be considered property or be a prostitute.

Luke and Nora get married as a type of business a
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