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Sunflower
Aug 24, 2011 rated it liked it
This is a well-written story about one woman finding her roots in 1970's London, at the time of the rise of the National Front. Her Hungarian immigrant family are the background to the story, and in some way they are all searching for their place in the world. The marriages are all fatally flawed (several of them quite literally) and in the background, almost un-noticed until you start thinking about it, the clothing theme weaves itself into the mix. The story comes full circle back to Eunice in ...more
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