Property Cover:Paperback As a child in Burkina

As a child in Burkina Faso

Vanessa's view of her own world begins to change

But when Henry Jr

a community touchstone

Not even their infuriating stepsiblings

Property Cover:Paperback As a child in BurkinaWINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a fresh, unsentimental look at what slave owning does to (and for) one's interior life. The writingso prised and clean limbedis a marvel" (Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize winning author of Beloved). Manon Gaudet, pretty, bitterly intelligent, and monstrously self absorbed, seethes under the dominion of her boorish husband.