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      Loving and Giving

      by Molly Keane
      Published
      Jun 1988
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      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      256
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      In 1914, when Nicandra is eight, all is well in the grand Irish estate of Deer Forest. Maman is beautiful and adored. Dada, silent and small, mooches contendedly around the stables. Aunt Tossie, of the giant heart and bosom, is widowed but looks splendid in weeds. The butler, the groom, the landsteward, the maids, the men--each has a place and knows it. Then, astonishingly, the perfect surface is shattered: Maman does something too dreadful ever to be spoken of. "What next? Who to love?" asks Nicaranda. And through her growing up and marriage her answer is to swamp those around her with kindness--while gradually the great house crumbles under a weight of manners and misunderstanding.

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      Apr 2001 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9781860498367 ISBN10 1860498361
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      May 2008 Virago Press (UK) ISBN13 9781844083251 ISBN10 184408325X
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      First Edition Jun 1988 Wm Collins & Sons & Co ISBN13 9780233983462 ISBN10 0233983465
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      Mar 1993 Abacus ISBN13 9780349100883 ISBN10 0349100888
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      Jun 2021 Hachette Audio UK ISBN10 B095J2HD3C
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