The peacock emporium
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Physical Description:
sound recording
sound disc
14 compact discs (16.25 hrs.) : digital ; 4/34 in. - Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Judith Boyd. |
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Subject: | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
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Gibsons Public Library | CD FIC MOYE (Text) | 30886000128732 | Book on CD | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"In the Sixties, Athene Forster is the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she is also beautiful, spoilt and out of control. When she agrees to marry dashing young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme her parents breathe a sigh of relief. But within two years, rumours have begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty five years on, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her glamorous mother's legacy. The only place she finds comfort is in her shop, The Peacock Emporium, a coffee shop-cum-curio store, decorated in her own image, which provides a haven for other misfits in the town. There she makes perhaps the first real friends of her life, including Alejandro, a male midwife, escaping his own ghosts in Argentina. But the spectre of Athene and the shop itself combine to set in place a chain of tragic events, forcing Suzanna to confront the feelings she has disguised for so long - and her family, in their varying ways, finally to deal with the events of the past. And Suzanna discovers the key to her history, and her happiness, may have been in front of her all along."--Amazon.ca.