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      Strange Music

      by Laura Fish
      Published
      Oct 2009
      Main Genre
      General Fiction General Fiction
      Pages
      224
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      In Laura Fish's ambitious and captivating novel, three very different women struggle for freedom. While Elizabeth Barrett Browning is confined to bed, chafing against the restriction of her doctors and writing poetry and fretful letters, at her family's Jamaican estate Kaydia, the Creole housekeeper, tries to protect her daughter from their predatory master; and a recently freed black slave, Sheba, mourns the loss of her lover.

      As Elizabeth, a passionate abolitionist, struggles to come to terms with the source of her wealth and privilege both Sheba and Kydia fight to escape a tragic past which seems ever-present. The resulting novel is an extraordinary evocation of the dark side of the nineteenth-century that is both horrifying and ultimately redeeming.

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      First Edition Oct 2009 Vintage (UK) ISBN13 9780099507987 ISBN10 0099507986
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      Aug 2008 Random House ISBN13 9780224080859 ISBN10 0224080857
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      Oct 2009 Random House ISBN13 9781409087014 ISBN10 1409087018
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      Oct 2009 Vintage Digital ISBN10 B0036RCV7O
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      Feb 2023 Random House ISBN13 9781529914092 ISBN10 1529914094
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