A young girl, Rose Allen lives a life as ordinary as of anyone living in Canarra. It is only a matter of time when she realizes that it is just a veil concealing behind it a more dangerous and adventurous life. She realizes that there is a difference between just existing and living. Rose discovers the hidden truth a...
The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in L...
"they told us that we needed therapy, as if medication and tainted words could fix broken toys."
