The Hacienda :My Venezuelan Years

The Hacienda

The Hacienda :My Venezuelan Years

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Published: 2 April, 1998
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Married at sixteen to a man twenty years her senior who spoke no English, she was taken to his ancestral home and estate where she found herself living in the most primitive of conditions, isolated and alone. St. Aubin de Teran ended up virtually running the plantation that belonged to her increasingly demented husband but enjoyed learning the mores and magic of a place that had remained practically unchanged for more than a century. Written in mesmerising prose, this is the extraordinary story of a young woman surviving by her wits and fantasies.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781860494598
ISBN10 1860494595
Number Of Pages 352
Item Weight 290 g
Product Dimensions 126 x 197 x 22 mm
Publisher / Reseller Little, Brown Book Group
Format paperback
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She writes with extraordinary vividness and clarity - she faces reality with a courage and skill that left me not knowing which to admire more: her gift as a writer or that she had the guts to carve out a place for herself in such an unforgiving world. * INDEPENDENT *
Powerfully engrossing * OBSERVER *
Astonishing * ELLE *
A remarkable woman, her life story makes for compulsive reading. * THE TIMES *

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Author's Bio

Lisa St. Aubin de Terán was born in south London in 1953. She is a prize-winning author and has published five novels.

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