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The Sailmaker's Daughter: A Novel
The Sailmaker's Daughter A Novel
Author: Stephanie Johnson
It is 1918 and the Spanish flu is epidemic in Suva, the capital of Fiji. Twelve-year-old Olive is sent with her brothers and grandmother to Taveuni to stay with her childless aunt and uncle on their sugar plantation to escape the disease as her mother lies dying of the flu in their family home. The months that follow hold magic and sorrow for Ol...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312306939
ISBN-10: 0312306938
Publication Date: 7/14/2003
Pages: 272
Edition: 1st Us
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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An entertaining story of Olive, the sailmaker's daughter, whose mother dies in the Spanish Flu epidemic in 1918. Based on the life of the author's grandmother.


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