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Oriole's daughter, a novel, Volume 3 (of 3)

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By Jessie Fothergill
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The novel traces the domestic and social life of a family whose ambitions and loyalties collide with caregiving, marriage expectations, and personal desires. Intimate scenes and conversations illuminate tensions between honesty and deception, the upkeep of outward appearances, and differing attachments to place and tradition. Characters pursue intellectual and artistic interests while negotiating class conventions and public reputation, and the narrative shows how pride, duty, and secrecy shape individual choices and relationships across a range of social encounters.

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