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The Day of the Butterfly
The Day of the Butterfly
Author: Norah Lofts
"A Historical Novel", when Daisy Holt is fired from her first job as a nursemaid, her fortune goes from bad to worse and she seems detined for a life in a London brothel. But fortune had not reckoned with a kindly madam with a shrewd eye for a good investment who spares Daisy from her imminent fate. Taught to become a dancer and not a prostitu...  more »
ISBN: 332801
Publication Date: 1979
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Doubleday
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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From back cover: Chestnut-haired Daisy sees her own past unfurling like on of Sir Charles's maps. Mo step was ever consciously planned: being chosen by Lady Langton as a suitable nursemaid; getting sacked; driting into Kitty Hammond's fashionable house of pleasure; meeting Jack Skelton; loving Jack far more than he had ever loved her: marrying Sir Charles Overton whose embraces she merely endured. But now all that had changed. Now there was Captain Hugo Stirling and he brought with him a love wonderful beyond all imagining. A love doomed to end too soon...
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A historical novel that is worth the read. It really gives insight into womans lives during that period. Nice light reading I would recommend. Great for the holiday season when you want to pick up a book, leave it for awhile and know where you left off when you have time to pick it up again.


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