Kristen den Hartog

• 2004
• / General Fiction
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Reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm’s darkly magical tales, 'The Perpetual Ending' tells an enchanting story about devoted sisters and their world of opposites, doppelgangers and ghosts. Jane and Eugenie Ingrams are mirror-image twins, two halves of ...

• Sep-2005
• / Literary
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Origin of Haloes' is the story of two families connected by an illicit affair and a lie that has dire consequences. When aspiring gymnast Kay Clancy finds herself pregnant at sixteen, she marries her high school sweetheart, Joe LeBlanc, admitting...

• Sep-2005
• / Literary
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The seedy underbelly of small-town life is exposed in 'Water Wings', Kristen den Hartog’s exuberant first novel, but beauty grows out of the decay and dark secrets. Beautiful, vampish Darlene is getting married again, to shoe-store Reg, a m...

• Mar-2011
• / Literary
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Ruth grew too fast. As a young girl over seven feet tall, she looms over adults and has a unique bird’s-eye perspective. She does not just remember but watches her past play out: her ongoing struggle to conceal the physical and mental symptoms...

• Jun-2012
• / Literary
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“Something good can come from even the most terrifying things. For every thing that is taken away, something else is given.” Ruth Brennan is a giant, “a rare, organic blunder pressed into a dollhouse world,” as she calls herself. Growing u...