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Description

Barbara Halliwell, on a grant at Oxford, receives an unexpected package-a memoir by a Korean crown princess, written more than two hundred years ago. A highly appropriate gift for her impending trip to Seoul. But from whom? The story she avidly reads on the plane turns out to be one of great... read more

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First Sentence

WHEN I WAS A LITTLE CHILD, I pined for a red silk skirt.

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  1. Margaret Drabble (Author)
 

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